Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology, at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in Athens. Among her publications are the books: Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body and Biopolitics (Athens: Ekkremes, 2007); Crisis as a ‘State of Exception’ (Athens: Savalas, 2012); and (with Judith Butler) Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2013). She has edited and co-edited the collective volumes: Feminist Theory and Cultural Critique (Athens: Nissos, 2006); Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and 'the Greeks' (State University of New York Press, 2010); Biosocialities (Athens: Nissos, 2011); Deconstructing the Empire: Theory and Politics of Postcolonial Studies (Athens: Nissos, 2016). She has been a fellow at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, at Brown University, and at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, at Columbia University. She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the academic journals Critical Times, Feminist Formations, and Philosophy and Society.