Lila Braunschweig is an assistant professor of French literature and culture and a research affiliate at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University.

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

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

She holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po (France). Before joining Utrecht, she was a British Academy Newton international postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kent, and a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) in Montreal, and the Chaire de recherche du Canada en éthique féministe at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière. Previously, she has also been a visiting researcher and international Fox fellow at Yale University (2019-2020). 

Lila's first book (Neutriser: emancipation par le neutre) was published in French by Les Liens qui Libèrent in 2021. Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in La Revue française de science politique, Philosophiques, Political Theory, the International Journal for Gender, Sexuality and Law,  Genre, Sexualités, Société.