Linda Zerilli

Linda Zerilli

Linda Zerilli
Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1986 

Major Areas of Interest:

- Political Theory
- Feminist and Gender Theory
- Gender and Politics

Selected Publications:

- "Value Pluralism and the Problem of Judgment: Farewell to Public Reason," Political Theory 40, no. 1 (February 2012): 6-32;
- "Towards a Feminist Theory of Judgment," Signs 34, no. 2 (Winter 2009);
- Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (2005);
- "'We Feel Our Freedom': Imagination and Judgment in the Thought of Hannah Arendt," Political Theory 33, no. 2 (April 2005): 158-188;
- "This Universalism Which is Not One," Diacritics 28, no. 2 (August 1998): 3-20;
- "Doing without Knowing: Feminism's Politics of the Ordinary," Political Theory 24, no. 4 (August 1998): 435-458;
- Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke, and Mill (1994);
- "Machiavelli's Sisters: Women and 'The Conversation' of Political Theory," Political Theory 19, no. 2 (May 1991): 252-276.
E-Mail: lmgzerilli@uchicago.edu
Phone: (773) 702-0522
Office: Pick 522A
Office hours: TBA

Linda Marie-Gelsomina Zerilli is the Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the College. She is currently Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Zerilli is the author of Signifying Woman (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994), Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), and articles on subjects ranging across feminist thought, the politics of language, aesthetics, democratic theory, and Continental philosophy. Her current book project is titled Towards a Democratic Theory of Judgment. She has been a Fulbright Fellow, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow. Professor Zerilli has served on the executive committee of Political Theory and is currently serving on the editorial or advisory boards of Philosophy and Rhetoric, Constellations, and Culture,Theory and Critique. 

Professor Zerilli spoke at Simone de Beauvoir Today: A Symposium to Mark the 25th Anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir's death in October, 2011. Her talk, entitled "Reading Beauvoir in the 21st Century" can be viewed here.

Curriculum Vitae (with links to select publications)