Chantal Mouffe

A political theorist educated at the universities of Louvain, Paris, and Essex, Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory emerita at the University of Westminster.

She has taught at many universities in Europe, North America and Latin America, and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Cornell, the University of California, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Between 1989 and 1995 she was Directrice de Programme at the College International de Philosophie in Paris.

Her books include Gramsci and Marxist Theory (1979), Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985, with Ernesto Laclau), The Return of the Political (1993), On the Political (2005), and For a Left Populism (2018).