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Linda Zerilli, Ph.D.


Department of Political Science
The Center for Gender Studies

University of Chicago


Fields: Political Theory, Feminist and Gender Theory, Gender and Politics

Selected Publications:
      "Towards a Feminist Theory of Judgment," Signs 34, no. 2 (Winter 2009).
      Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (2005).
      "'We Feel Our Freedom': Imagination and Judgment in the Thought of Hannah Arendt,"
            Political Theory 33, no. 2 (April 2005): 158-188.
      "This Universalism Which is Not One," Diacritics 28, no. 2 (August 1998): 3-20.
      "Doing without Knowing: Feminism's Politics of the Ordinary," Political Theory 24, no. 4
            (August 1998): 435-458.
      Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill (1994).
      "Machiavelli's Sisters: Women and 'The Conversation' of Political Theory" Political Theory
            19, no. 2 (May 1991): 252-276.

email: lmgzerilli@uchicago.edu
phone: 773.702.0522

Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College. She holds a joint appoinment with the Center for Gender Studies. She is the author of Signifying Woman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994), Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), and articles on subjects ranging across feminist thought, the politics of language, aesthetics, and Continental philosophy. She has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow. Professor Zerilli has served on the executive committee of Political Theory and is currently serving on the editorial boards of Philosophy and Rhetoric, Constellations, and Culture, Theory, and Critique.