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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.
Robyn Marasco
Associate Professor
Robyn Marasco is an associate professor of Political Science at Hunter College and a member of Hunter's Council on Honors. She specializes in the History of Political Thought, Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalysis.
See Contact DetailsEducation Background
- 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
- POLSC 200: Introduction to Political Ideas
- POLSC 204.06: Political Theory & Film (summer session)
- POLSC 204.78: Frantz Fanon: Anti-Colonialism, Militancy, and Revolution
- POLSC 302: Critical Theory & Politics
- POLSC 304.13: Machiavelli and Methods
- POLSC 304.24: On Authority
- POLSC 307: Theories of Revolution
- POLSC 309: Feminist Political Theory
- POLSC 311: Utopian Theory
Selected Publications
- The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory After Hegel (Columbia University Press, 2015)
- The Political Encounter with Louis Althusser, co-edited with Banu Bargu, a special issue of Rethinking Marxism, vol. 31, no. 3, July 2019
- The Authoritarian Personality, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 117, no. 4, 2018
- “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
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