Undutiful Daughters―New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice

Henriette Gunkel received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of East London (UK) and is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany. She is the author of the book The Cultural Politics of Female Sexuality in South Africa, co-editor of darkmatter's third themed issue on the subject of postcolonial sexuality, and co-editor of the anthology What Can a Body Do? Praktiken und Figurationen des Korpers in den Kulturwissenschaften. She is also the co-curator of the annual African Film Festival Cinemameu in Inhambane, Mozambique.

Chrysanthi Nigianni holds a Ph.D. from the University of East London, and has recently joined the thinking-machine of a neo-materialist feminism. Educated in the social sciences—she has a sociology degree from Panteion University (Athens), and an MSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics (LSE)—she then took the turn to philosophy and feminism with the focus being on queer theory, theories of sexuality, and continental philosophy. She has taught at the University of East London (London) and at Anglia Ruskin University (UK). She is co-editor of the book Deleuze and Queer Theory, and of the New Formations issue on 'Deleuze and Politics.' She is currently a visiting scholar at CUNY GLAGS, where she is working on a manuscript on film as philosophy.

Fanny Soderback is an assistant professor of Philosophy at Siena College. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in 2010. She is the editor of Feminist Readings of Antigone, and her work has been published in journals such as Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, and in French in l'Infini. She is the co-founder and director of the Kristeva Circle. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Time for Change: On Time and Difference in the Work of Kristeva and Irigaray.