Professor of Romance Studies
Bruno Bosteels previously held positions as an assistant professor at Harvard University and at Columbia University. He is the author of Alain Badiou, une trajectoire polémique (La Fabrique, 2009); Badiou and Politics (Duke University Press, 2011); The Actuality of Communism (Verso, 2011); Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis and Religion in Times of Terror (Verso, 2012); Philosophies of Defeat: The Jargon of Finitude (Verso, 2016); and The Mexican Commune (Duke University Press, forthcoming). He has translated several books by Alain Badiou, including Theory of the Subject (Continuum, 2009); Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy (Verso, 2011); The Adventure of French Philosophy (Verso, 2012); Philosophy for Militants (Verso, 2013); Rhapsody for the Theatre (Verso, 2013); and The Age of the Poets (Verso, 2014). He is the author of more than one hundred articles on modern Latin American literature and culture, and on contemporary philosophy and political theory. Between 2005 and 2011 he served as general editor of Diacritics.
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