Robyn Marasco

Professor

Areas of Specialization: History of Political Thought; Critical Theory; Feminist Theory; Psychoanalysis

Robyn Marasco is an professor of Political Science at Hunter College and a member of Hunter's Council on Honors.

Profile

Robyn Marasco is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, and an affiliated faculty member with the Department of Women and Gender Studies. Robyn Marasco is also the co-editor of Polity, a journal of political science.

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (2006)
M.A., University of California, Berkeley (2000)
B.A. Smith College (1999)

Areas of Specialization

History of Political Thought
Critical Theory
Feminist Theory
Psychoanalysis

Courses

Selected Publications

"Bringing the War Home: Frantz Fanon and the Disorders of Violence," forthcoming in Representations
"The Real Possibility of Physical Killing: A Feminist Critique of Carl Schmitt," American Journal of Political Science, vol. 67, no. 4, October 2023 (co-winner of the Okin-Young Prize for best article in feminist political theory)
"Machiavelli and the Play-Element in Political Life,” Political Theory, vol. 50, no. 4, 2022
“Critique and Politics: A Feminist Reading of Wendy Brown” in Power, Neoliberalism, and the Reinvention of Politics: The Critical Theory of Wendy Brown (Penn State Press, 2022)
“On the Uses and Abuses of Weber for Comparative Political Science,” PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 55, no. 1, 2022
“Bataille’s Anti-Fascism,” Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 21, no. 1, 2022
"Thinking at the Extremes," Critical Times, vol. 4, no 1, 2021 (for a special symposium on Rethinking Violence with Étienne Balibar)
"Heliotropes," Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 46, no. 1, 2020 (for a special symposium on Critical Theory, Exile, and Jewish Identity: On Seyla Benhabib's Exile, Statelessness, and Migration)
"On Womanly Nihilism: Beauvoir and Us," boundary2, vol. 47, no. 1, 2020
"Althusser's Gramscian Debt: On Reading Out Loud," Rethinking Marxism, vol. 31, no. 3, 2019
"There's a Fascist in the Family: Critical Theory and Anti-Authoritarianism," South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 117, no. 4, 2018
"It's All About the Benjamins: Considerations on the Gambler as a Political Type," New German Critique, vol. 133, no. 1, 2018
"Critical Theory and the Task of Political Education," Theory & Event, vol. 20, no. 3, 2017
"The Epic as Form," Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 16, no. 1, 2017 (a special symposium on Sheldon Wolin's Theoretical Practice)
"Toward a Critique of Conspiratorial Reason," Constellations, vol. 23, no. 2, 2016 (special issue on "Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis")
"Terms and Conditions: The Sexual Contract Twenty-Five Years Later," History of the Present, vol. 3, no. 2, 2013
“Defining Romnesia,” Theory & Event, vol. 13, no. 1, 2013
"Machiavelli contra Governmentality," Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 11, no. 4, 2012.
"'I would rather wait for you than believe you are not coming at all': Revolutionary Love in a Post-Revolutionary Time," Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 36, no. 6, 2010
"A Grammar of Hope in An Age of Empire?" Review of Paolo Virno's Grammar of the Multitude, Theory & Event, vol. 9, no. 4, 2010
"'Already the Effect of the Whip': Critical Theory and the Feminine Ideal," differences, vol. 17, no. 1, 2006

Office Hours

On leave

Contact Details

Robyn Marasco

Political Science
68th Street West 1705
(212) 772-4666
rmarasco@hunter.cuny.edu