Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Buffalo. She is the author of Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism (Columbia 2012); An Ethics of Dissensus: Feminism, Postmodernity, and the Politics of Radical Democracy (Stanford 2001); The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism (SUNY, 1995); the editor of Gombrowicz’s Grimaces and co-editor, among others, of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis (SUNY 2005); Time for the Humanities (Fordam, 2008) and Intermedialities: Philosophy, Art, Politics (Rowman & Littlefield 2010). Her interdisciplinary research interests include feminist political theory, modernism, feminist philosophy, ethics, and critical race theory. She is currently working on a book devoted to Hannah Arendt.