Education

• PhD, York University (2017)
• MA, University of Guelph (2010)
• BA, Honors, Trent University (2006)
• International Scholar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2005)

About
Elisabeth Paquette has studied in Canada and Belgium, and taught in Canada and the US. Her first book, titled Universal Emancipation: Race beyond Badiou (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), engages French political theorist Alain Badiou’s discussion of Négritude and the Haitian Revolution to develop a nuanced critique of his theory of emancipation. Currently, she is working on a monograph on the writings of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter, as well as an edited collection on Alain Badiou’s conception of sexual difference. She has translated several essays, including a few by Julia Kristeva. She is also the founder and co-organizer of the annual Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop.

Research Areas
Continental Philosophy (esp. French Marxism), Feminist Theory, Decolonial Theory, Social and Political Philosophy