Penelope Deutscher (PhD, Philosophy, NSW) is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author of a number of books, including Floucault's Futures (Columbia, 2017), The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (Cambridge, 2008), and How to Read Derrida (Norton, 2006), and the coeditor (with of Olivia Custer and Samir Haddad) of Foucault/Derrida (Columbia, 2016) and (with Cristina Lafont) Critical Theory in Critical Times (Columbia, 2017), among other collections. She is the Associate Director of Northwestern's Critical Theory cluster and coinvestigator, with Judith Butler, of the Mellon-fuinded International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs. Her research interests include critical theory and gender and sexuality studies.