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Books (refereed):
Dr. Leeb has several recently published, and forthcoming books:
Her latest book, Contesting the Far-Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach
(Columbia University Press, New Directions in Critical Theory) has been published in April 2024; a symposium on the book will appear in New Political Science (forthcoming in 2026); the book has made significant waves: it has been reviewed in Critical Horizons (forthcoming in 2025), Politics, Religion, and Ideology (2025), The Review of Politics (2025), Contemporary Political Theory (2025), Perspectives on Politics (2025), Emancipations (2025), Neue Politische Literatur (New Political Literature) (2025), and Choice (2024); See also a Blog at Columbia University Press (2024), and hear a Radio Interview in Australia (2024).
Dr. Leeb has just finished a new book, The Concept of Power: A Very Short Introduction, which will appear in Oxford University Presses’ signature A Very Short Introduction book series in 2026.
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Articles (refereed):
Dr. Leeb has also recently published several articles in journals:
1. Claudia Leeb, “Why We Need Psychoanalysis and Feminist Critical Theory to Understand and Contest the Far Right: A Response,” New Political Science (forthcoming in 2026).
2. Claudia Leeb, "Channeling Malaise: The Maligned Figure of the Non-Citizen in the Far-Right Era,” New Political Science (forthcoming in 2025).
3. Claudia Leeb and Zakin, Emily "Psychoanalytic Feminism," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (substantive revisions, October 3, 2025).
4. Claudia Leeb, "Fending Off Ambiguity at All Costs: Why Women Are Attracted to the Far Right," Constelationes (vol. 16, Dec. 31, 2024), 194-219.
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Book Chapters (refereed):
She has also recently published and forthcoming book-chapters in edited volumes:
1. Claudia Leeb, “Rethinking the Gendered Coloniality of Power with Lugones, Davis, and Quijano,” in Giulio Gallarotti and Mark Haugaard (eds.), Handbook of Political Power (Edward Elgar Publishing, Elgar Original Reference series, forthcoming in 2026).
2. Claudia Leeb, "Judith Butler’s Use of Psychoanalysis: Power, Subjectivity, and Agency," in Sabine Hark, Ina Kerner, and Hanna Meißner (eds.) Handbuch Judith Butler (Handbook Judith Butler) (Metzler Verlag, in German, forthcoming in 2026).
3. Claudia Leeb, "Authoritarian Family Structures and the Resurgence of the Extremist Right: Overpowering Unconscious Forces," in Arthur Bueno (ed), The Return of the Authoritarian Personality? Crises of Neoliberal Biopolitics (Bloomsbury Publishing, forthcoming in 2025).
4. Claudia Leeb, “Mass Hypnoses: The Rise of the Far Right from an Adornian and Freudian Perspective,” in Amirhosein Khandizaji and Wolfgang Sohst (eds.) Adorno‘s Shadow: A Lasting Legacy (Berlin: Xenomoi Verlag, 2025), 43-63.
5. Claudia Leeb, "Trabajadora Rebeldes De Las Maquilaoras: Una Perspectiva Feminista de la Teoría Crítica (Rebelling Female Maquiladora Workers: A Feminist Critical Theory Perspective)," in Santiago M. Zarria and Estefanía C. Apolo (eds.) Escuela de Frankfurt: Crisis, desafíos y vitalidad de la Teoría Crítica (Frankfurt School: Crisis, challenges and vitality of Critical Theory) (Ecuador: Colección Filosófica Actual, in Spanish) (March 2025), 221-248.
6. Claudia Leeb, “Rethinking Feminist Political Subjectivity with Deconstruction and Negative Dialectics,” in Patricia Moynagh and Mary Caputi (eds.), Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought (Edward Elgar Publishing, Elgar Original Reference series, 2024), 413-435.
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Also, Dr. Leeb’s book review “Review of Peter E. Gordon: A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2023),” appeared in The Review of Politics (January, 2025).
Talks
In 2024/2025 Dr. Leeb had several book symposia, invited lectures including a keynote address, and conference talks:
Book Symposia:
1. Book Symposium: Claudia Leeb's Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach, Pacific American Philosophical Association (APA) division meeting (online) April 8-12, 2026
2. Book Symposium: Claudia Leeb's Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach, Radical Philosophy Association Conference (RPA), Salt Lake City, October 2024
3. Book Symposium: Claudia Leeb's Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach, American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, PA, September 2024
Invited Lectures:
1. Presenter: Book workshop on Agatha Slupek’s Feminist Fury: Aesthetics, Action, and Reaction, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, April 2026.
2. Keynote Address: Claudia Leeb, “On Coming and Working as a Professor in the United States,” honorary guest speaker, Austrian National Day, and Austrian-American Day, Seattle, Washington, October 2025
3. Presenter: Claudia Leeb, “Far Right Recruitment Tactics: The Manipulation of the Unconscious,” Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung Innsbruck (CGI), University of Innsbruck, Austria, November 2025.
4. Presenter: Claudia Leeb, “A Psychoanalytic Approach to Understanding and Undermining the Far Right,” MOMA Berlin, Philosophischer Arbeitskreis (Philosophical Working Group,” Berlin, Germany, October 2025
5. Presenter: Claudia Leeb, “A Psychoanalytic Approach to Understanding and Undermining the Far Right,” participation in a session of the Critical Theory Reading Group, composed of faculty from various universities in the US, who have discussed my book in the fall of 2024 and the spring of 2025(online), January 2025.
Conference Talks:
1. Presenter: “Why Women Join the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic Approach,” Women on the Right in US History, Berkley Center for Right-Wing Studies, Berkley, California, February 2026
2. Presenter: “Undermining the Allure of the Far Right for Women with Frenkel-Brunswik and De Beauvoir,” Western Political Science Association (WPSA), San Diego, California, April 2026
3. Presenter: Claudia Leeb, “Rethinking Feminist Revolutionary Agency with Althusser and De Beauvoir,” Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Vancouver, Canada, March 2024
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