Laura Roberts received her PhD in Philosophy from The University of Queensland, Australia, where she currently teaches Gender Studies and holds an Honorary Research Fellowship. Although she now resides in Australia, Laura was born and raised in South Africa and began her undergraduate studies in Drama and Philosophy at The University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Her research interests emerge from the field of post-colonial/decolonial theory and feminist philosophy, particularly the work of Luce Irigaray and Gayatri Spivak. She has contributed to Building a New World (Palgrave, 2015), Identity and Difference: Contemporary Debates (Palgrave…
Laura Roberts received her PhD in Philosophy from The University of Queensland, Australia, where she currently teaches Gender Studies and holds an Honorary Research Fellowship. Although she now resides in Australia, Laura was born and raised in South Africa and began her undergraduate studies in Drama and Philosophy at The University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Her research interests emerge from the field of post-colonial/decolonial theory and feminist philosophy, particularly the work of Luce Irigaray and Gayatri Spivak. She has contributed to Building a New World (Palgrave, 2015), Identity and Difference: Contemporary Debates (Palgrave, 2016) and recently published an article in Hypatia (2017). Laura is currently finalising her monograph, which is forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press (2018), in which she explores the question of the political in Luce Irigaray’s philosophy of sexuate difference. Her new research question(s), evolving out of her work in this book and time spent in Barcelona, explore the links between feminist theory and the feminisation of politics in the new international municipalist movement, with a particular focus on the strategies and policies of Barcelona en Comú. Laura is co-director of The Irigaray Circle and is a founding member of the community-based Queensland School of Continental Philosophy that seeks to bring philosophical and political conversations back into the wider community.
