**Judith Butler *, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory and the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School/EGS. She is the author of Gender Trouble *; Precarious Life; Frames of War; and Towards a Performativ...

**Judith Butler *, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory and the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School/EGS. She is the author of Gender Trouble *; Precarious Life; Frames of War; and Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly.