Claudia Leeb is an Associate Professor in political theory at Washington State University. She works at the intersection of early Frankfurt school critical theory, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis to address questions of power and rebellion. She is the author of Contesting the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Approach(2024, Columbia University Press, New Directions in Critical Theory Series); The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence (2018, Edinburgh University Press), Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism: Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject (2017, Oxford University Press), Working-Class Women in Elite Academia: A Philosophical Inquiry (2004, Peter Lang Publisher), and Die Zerstörung des Mythos von der Friedfertigen Frau (The Destruction of the Peaceful Woman Myth) (1998, Peter Lang Publisher). Her books are widely reviewed and have won book awards. She has just completed the book Power: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, under contract). She has articles published in Political Theory, New Political Science, Theory & Event, Perspectives on Politics, Constellations, Contemporary Political Theory, Social Philosophy Today, The Good Society, The Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, Open Cultural Studies, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and Radical Philosophy Review. She has also contributed several book chapters to anthologies on early Frankfurt School Critical Theory and Feminist Theory. She lectures about her work internationally.
