Elena Tzelepis
completed her doctoral studies in Philosophy at The New
School for Social Research, New York. She is an Associate Professor at the
Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of
Thessaly, Volos. She has taught at Columbia University, New York, and as
visiting faculty at various universities in Europe and North Africa. She has
been a fellow and research collaborator among other institutions at the Center
for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University, New York, at
Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, at The International
Consortium for Critical Theory Programs, University of California, Berkeley.
She has published on critique, deconstruction, and social change, on the
intersections of politics and art, on the politics of difference, on vulnerability
and embodied resistance in the postcolonial condition, on the political and the
psychical, on nomadic cartographies, subjectivity and power. She is the PI of the
Research “Antigones: Bodies of resιstance in the contemporary world”, https://antigones.gr/ (supported by the
Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation).