Abstract
Judith Butler (b. 1956) is one of the leading theorists working in the field of the humanities in the late twentieth and early twenty‐first centuries. Having established her international reputation with the publication of Gender Trouble in 1990, she is best known for her work in gender and sexuality studies and is often cited as one of the “founders” of queer theory, but her work extends far beyond these fields, and its influence can be felt within philosophy, literary criticism and critical theory, cultural studies, sociology, art theory and criticism, media and communication studies. After completing her PhD at Yale in 1984, Butler taught at Wesleyan University and at Johns Hopkins University; she is currently Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
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