Robyn Marasco

Robyn Marasco is the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at The New School for Social Research. She is the author of The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory after Hegel (Columbia UP, 2015), which reconstructs the emancipatory project of critical theory around the idea of negative dialectics.  Her articles have appeared in leading journals in the humanities and social sciences, including the American Journal of Political Science, Political Theory, PS, Contemporary Political Theory, New German Critique, boundary2, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and Constellations. Professor Marasco was the guest editor of a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly on “The Authoritarian Personality” and guest co-editor, with Banu Bargu, of a special issue of Rethinking Marxism on “The Political Encounter with Louis Althusser”.  She has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ and at the Whitney Center for the Humanities at Yale University.   Her forthcoming book, Elements of a Political Theory of the Family, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2026.  Professor Marasco is co-editor of Polity, a journal of political science.