Education:
Ph.D., Political Science, The New School for Social Research, New York City
Ph.D., Psychology/Philosophy of Science, The University of Vienna, Austria
M.A., Gender Studies and Feminist Theory, The New School for Social Research
B.S./M.S., Psychology, The University of Vienna

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Areas of Specialization:
19th and 20th century European Political Philosophy
Feminist Political Theory
Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis

Areas of Competence:
Democratic Theory
The History of Political Thought

Teaches:
Western Political Theory
Power and Political Resistance

Recent Publications:

• Single-Authored Books:
Working-Class Women in Elite Academia: A Philosophical Inquiry (New York/Brussels: Peter Lang Publisher, Philosophy and Politics Series, 2004).

• Edited Book:
Feminists Contest Politics and Philosophy (with Lisa Gurley and Anna Aloisia Moser) (New York/Brussels: Peter Lang Publisher, Philosophy and Politics Series, 2005).

• Book Under Consideration:
The Possibilities of the Limit: Rethinking Feminist and Democratic Theory

• Peer-Reviewed Articles:
"The Im-Possibilities of the Feminist Subject," Social Philosophy Today (forthcoming).

"Capitalism and the Unconscious," The Review of Politics (forthcoming).

"The Politics of Misrecognition: A Feminist Critique," The Good Society (forthcoming).

"Toward a Theoretical Outline of the Subject: The Centrality of Adorno and Lacan for Feminist Political Theorizing," Political Theory (lead article, vol. 36, no. 3, June 2008), 351-376.

"Fears and Desires: Women, Class and Adorno," Theory & Event (vol. 11, no. 1, February 2008)

"Marx and the Gendered Structure of Capitalism," Philosophy & Social Criticism (vol. 33, no. 7, November 2007), 833-859.

• Book Chapters:
"Contesting Hierarchical Oppositions: The Dialectics of Adorno and Lacan," in Alfred J. Drake (ed.) The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming).

"Das Klassenkonzept Poststrukturalistisch Gedacht," [A Poststructuralist Perspective on the Concept of Class], in Ingolf Erler (ed.)

"Keine Chance für Lisa Simpson? - Soziale Ungleichheit im Bildungssystem" [No Chance for Lisa Simpson? Social Inequality in the Educational System] (Wien: Mandelbaum-Verlag, 2007), 72-88.