Profile
Michael Philip Fisher is an adjunct lecturer in Women and Gender Studies at Hunter College, where he teaches courses in feminist/queer theory, science studies and political economy. His main area of interest is the coarticulation of race, gender and sexuality with the major concepts of American liberalism—freedom, equality, citizenship, property—over the course of American political development, with a special focus on period spanning from the Stamp Act crisis to the rise of Jeffersonianism.
He is also a translator of Baudelaire and is at work on a series of prose translations of the Tableaux Parisiens that emphasize the affective, bodily experience of urbanization—both in Baudelaire’s Paris and our New York. He gives an especially killer lecture on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and runs a restaurant in his spare time.