1. Rosi Braidotti was a professor and the founding director of Utrecht University's women's studies programme and the founding director of the Centre for the Humanities.
18 Facts About Rosi Braidotti
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Rosi Braidotti has been awarded honorary degrees from Helsinki and Linkoping ; she is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities since 2009, and a Member of the Academia Europaea since 2014.
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Rosi Braidotti, who holds Italian and Australian citizenship, was born in Italy and moved to Australia when she was 16, where she received degrees from the Australian National University in Canberra in 1977 and was awarded the University Medal in Philosophy and the University Tillyard prize.
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Rosi Braidotti then moved on to do her doctoral work at the Sorbonne, where she received her degree in philosophy in 1981.
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Rosi Braidotti has taught at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands since 1988, when she was appointed as the founding professor in women's studies.
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Rosi Braidotti is a pioneer in European Women's Studies: she founded the inter-university SOCRATES network NOISE and the Thematic Network for Women's Studies ATHENA, which she directed till 2005.
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Rosi Braidotti is a founding member of the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres, 2008; in 2010 she was elected member of the Board of the Consortium Humanities Centres and Institutes and in 2014 a member of the Scientific Council of the Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique in France.
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Rosi Braidotti was the founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, and is currently Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University.
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Rosi Braidotti serves, or has served, on the advisory board of many academic feminist journals, including differences, Signs, Women's Studies International Forum, and Feminist Formations.
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Rosi Braidotti's publications have consistently been placed in continental philosophy, at the intersection with social and political theory, cultural politics, gender, feminist theory and ethnicity studies.
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Rosi Braidotti makes a case for an alternative view on subjectivity, ethics and emancipation and pitches diversity against the postmodernist risk of cultural relativism while standing against the tenets of liberal individualism.
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Rosi Braidotti's work has been translated in a total of 19 languages and all the main books in at least three languages other than English.
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In 2022, Rosi Braidotti published Posthuman Feminism, a text that helps establish a theoretical foundation for posthuman feminism, an alternate strand of posthumanism that seeks to move beyond Enlightenment humanism, embrace the nonhuman, and imagine how technology is changing our lives while still centering social justice issues of gender, race, and class.
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Rather than perceiving this situation as a loss of cognitive and moral self-mastery, Rosi Braidotti argues that the posthuman helps us make sense of our flexible and multiple identities.
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In 2011 Rosi Braidotti published two new books: the renewed and revised edition of Nomadic Subjects and a collection of essays Nomadic Theory.
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Rosi Braidotti has pioneered European perspectives in feminist philosophy and practice and has been influential on third-wave as well as post-secular feminisms.
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Rosi Braidotti was elected a member of Academia Europaea in 2014.
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In 2022, Rosi Braidotti was granted the Humboldt Research Award for Lifelong Achievements in research and teaching.