Associate Members

Francesca Brencio

Francesca Brencio (PhD) is a an Adjunct Fellow in Philosophy. From 2000 to 2007 she was Associate Lecturer in Aesthetics at the University of Perugia and, from 2003 to 2005, she lectured at the School of Philosophical Counseling in Torino (Italy). She was awarded Special Mentions for both her Master thesis (2001) and her PhD dissertation (2006) by the Collegio Siciliano di Filosofia and by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici of Naples. She is the author of Negativity in Heidegger and Hegel (Rome: Aracne, 2010, in Italian). She has published on a wide range of topics related to the philosophy of Hegel and Heidegger in several collections and journals.

Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly was Lecturer in Philosophy at Middlesex University from 2008 to 2012. He received his PhD in 2007 from the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault (Routledge, 2009), Foucault's History of Sexuality Volume I The Will to Knowledge (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2013), and Foucault and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2013).

Kiarina Kordela

A. Kiarina Kordela is Professor of German and Director of the Critical Theory Program at Macalester College. She is a visiting professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia and the author of $urplus: Spinoza, Lacan (SUNY Press, 2007), Being, Time, Bios: Capitalism and Ontology (SUNY Press, forthcoming 2013), and co-editor, with Dimitris Vardoulakis of Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011). She has published on a wide range of topics in several collections and journals including Angelaki, Cultural Critique, Political Theory, Parallax, Rethinking Marxism and Umbr(a). Her “Biopolitics: Transhistorically and Historically” is forthcoming in Differences.