Monique Roelofs is Professor of Philosophy of Art&Culture and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on art and politics, feminist theory, aesthetics and race, and decolonial and Black aesthetics. Roelofs is the author of The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic (2014), Arts of Address: Being Alive to Language and The World (Columbia UP, 2020), and Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms (Duke UP, 2026). Her editorial work includes a special volume on aesthetics and race of the journal Contemporary Aesthetics (2009) and the coedited collection Black Art …
Monique Roelofs is Professor of Philosophy of Art&Culture and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Amsterdam. She has published widely on art and politics, feminist theory, aesthetics and race, and decolonial and Black aesthetics. Roelofs is the author of The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic (2014), Arts of Address: Being Alive to Language and The World (Columbia UP, 2020), and Strange Tastes: Aesthetics and the Public in Latin American and Latinx Feminisms (Duke UP, 2026). Her editorial work includes a special volume on aesthetics and race of the journal Contemporary Aesthetics (2009) and the coedited collection Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings (Bloomsbury, 2024). She is currently completing a monograph that investigates the swerves and coilings of address as a source of aesthetic collectivity.
