Dr. Lila Braunschweig

Assistant Professor
French
l.s.z.braunschweig@uu.nl

I am an assistant professor of French literature and culture and a research affiliate in gender studies at the Institute for cultural inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University.

I currently teach courses on contemporary French culture, literature, and philosophy, with a focus on political, gender and postcolonial issues.

My research centers on issues of social justice and gender politics analyzed through the lens of feminist, queer and trans theory and French 20th and 21th century philosophy.

I hold a PhD in political theory from Sciences Po (France). Before joining Utrecht, I have been a British Academy Newton international postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kent, and a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at the Center for research on ethics at the University of Montre´al (CRÉ) and the Canadian research chair in feminist ethics at the Université du Québec aTrois-Rivière. Previously, I have also been a visiting researcher and international Fox fellow at Yale University (2019-2020). 

My first book (Neutriser: emancipation par le neutre) was published in French by Les Liens qui Libèrent in 2021. My work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Philosophiques, Political Theory, the International Journal for Gender, Sexuality and Law, and Genre, Sexualités, Société.