Can the Humanities Become Post-Human? Interview with Rosi Braidotti

Abstract

Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. She was the founding professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht (1988-2005) and the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. She is an established scholar in the field of Continental philosophy and epistemology, feminist and gender theories and post-structuralist thought. Her books include Patterns of Dissonance (1991), Nomadic Subjects (1994, 2011 2nd ed), Metamorphoses (2002), Transpositions (2006), Nomadic Theory (2011), and The Posthuman (2013). Together with Paul Gilroy she has recently edited the volume Conflicting Humanities (2016).