Samantha Bankston, PhD, is a visiting scholar at Södertörn University in Stockholm. Her research focuses on metaphysics in 19th and 20th century European philosophy, especially the aesthetic ontology of Gilles Deleuze. She is the author of Deleuze and Becoming (Bloomsbury, 2017), which systematizes Deleuze’s notion of becoming by tracking temporal logic(s) across his œuvre.
Bankston is a translator for The Deleuze Seminars, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and Purdue University, in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the University of Paris-VIII, and Web Deleuze, which makes available online previously unpublished English translations of Deleuze’s audio-recorded seminars, given at the University of Paris-VIII from 1979-1987. She has translated the work of several French philosophers, including Anne Sauvagnargues’ book, Deleuze and Art (Bloomsbury/Continuum, 2013). Bankston’s authored works appear in The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (Lexington Books, 2022), Deleuze and the Passions (Punctum Books, 2016), International Journal of Žižek Studies (2016), Simone de Beauvoir—A Humanist Thinker (Brill, 2015), and elsewhere. At present, her research explores the destituent time of metaphysics; revolution beyond identity; temporal logic between vitalism and the Dialectic, all and nothing.