Professor of Political Science
Areas of Specialization: Political Theory; Feminist Theory; Queer Theory; Contemporary Democratic Theory; Environmental Political Theory; Law and Politics
Professor Maxwell is Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. She is the author of
Public Trials: Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the Politics of Lost Causes (Oxford UP, 2015), the co-editor of
Second Nature: Rethinking Nature Through Politics (Fordham UP, 2014), and the co-author of
The Right to Have Rights (Verso, 2018). Her articles have appeared in
Political Theory,
Contemporary Political Theory, and
Theory and Event.
She is currently completing a book, entitled
Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling, and beginning a new project in environmental and queer political theory.
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