Diana Coole is Professor of Political and Social Theory in the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...

. Her main field of research covers, broadly, contemporary continental philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 with special interests in poststructuralism (especially Foucault

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...

), and feminism

Feminism

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 and gender in political thought. Coole also sits on the editorial boards of several journals including Contemporary Political Theory

Contemporary Political Theory (Journal)

Contemporary Political Theory is an academic journal covering political theory and philosophy published by Palgrave. The editors in chief are Terrell Carver and Samuel A. Chambers ....

 and the European Journal of Political Theory

European Journal of Political Theory

The European Journal of Political Theory is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers four times a year in the field of Politics. The journal's editors are Richard North and Steve Buckler...

.

Publications

• Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics. Collective Life after Poststructuralism (2006) Lanham, MD:Rowman and Littlefield.
• Negativity and Politics. Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism (2000) London & New York: Routledge.
• Women in Political Theory. From Ancient Misogyny to Contemporary Feminism (1993) Hemel Hempstead: Harvester-Wheatsheaf.