Principal Investigator: Professor Rosi Braidotti

Key areas of expertise/interest: feminist philosophy; epistemology; poststructuralism; psychoanalysis

Summary: Rosi Braidotti is currently a Distinguished Professor in the humanities at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands. She was the founding chair and professor of women's studies in the Arts Faculty of Utrecht University (1988 to 2005) and the scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies (1995 to 2005). In 1989 she set up the Network of Interdisciplinary Women's Studies in Europe (NOI&SE) within the Erasmus Programme. From 1997 to 2005 she was also the scientific director of the Thematic Network for European Women's Studies ATHENA, which is officially approved within the SOCRATES programme.


Publications:

Transpositions On Nomadic Ethics, Polity Press, 2006.

Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, Polity Press, 2002.
Thinking Differently. A European Women’s Studies Reader (co-edited with Gabriele Griffin) London: Zed Books, 2002.

Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs (co-edited with Nina Lykke). London: Zed Books, 1996.

Women, the Enviromment, and Sustainable Development. Towards a Theoretical Synthesis (co-edited with E.Charkiewicz, S. Hausler and S. Wieringa), London: Zed Books, 1994.

Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1994.

Patterns of Dissonance, Cambridge, Polity Press, 1991.