Jodi Dean

Jodi Dean teaches political theory in upstate NY where she is also actively involved in grassroots political organizing. Raised in Mississippi and Alabama, she went north for college, earning her BA at Princeton University and her MA and PhD at Columbia University. Initially, her focus was on Soviet area studies. In her second year of graduate school, she switched to political theory, which was a good thing since the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the field dissolved. Her books take up questions of solidarity, the conditions of possibility for democracy, communicative capitalism, and the necessity of building a politics that has communism as its horizon. She has given invited lectures in art and academic venues all over the world.