In Her Place in Theory, Juliette Marchant sits down with scholars from a variety of disciplines to talk about the women who’ve shaped the way we think. Each episode spotlights one woman, past or present, whose ideas have guided, challenged or inspired the guest’s own work. It’s a series about influence, inspiration, and the overlooked legacies of women in theory.
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In Her Place in Theory, Juliette Marchant sits down with scholars from a variety of disciplines to talk about the women who’ve shaped the way we think. Each episode spotlights one woman, past or present, whose ideas have guided, challenged or inspired the guest’s own work. It’s a series about influence, inspiration, and the overlooked legacies of women in theory.
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May 18, 2026
Frigga Haug with Jeta Mulaj
<p>In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Jeta Mulaj, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University, to discuss the work of Frigga Haug: Marxist feminist theorist, sociologist, and one of the most important thinkers of social reproduction and collective emancipation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.</p><p>Together, Mulaj and Marchant explore what makes Haug’s work so enduring and generative: her critique of capitalist social relations, her theory of women’s labor and social reproduction, and her insistence that emancipation must transform everyday life as much as economic structures. From questioning the relationship between victimhood and agency, to the “four-in-one perspective,” the conversation highlights Haug as a thinker who challenged both economistic Marxism and liberal feminism, urging instead a democratic, collective reimagining of work, care, education, and human flourishing under and beyond capitalism.</p><p><br></p><p>Texts Referenced in the Episode:</p><p><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Selected-Writings-of-Frigga-Haug-on-Experience-Labour-and-Critique/Mulaj-Colligs/p/book/9781032768014" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Selected Writings of Frigga Haug on Experience, Labour, and Critique - Edited by Jeta Mulaj and Alexandra Colligs</a></p><p><a href="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduates/modules/literaturetheoryandtime/ltt.haug_four-in-one.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The “Four-in-One Perspective”: A Manifesto for aMore Just Life - Frigga Haug</a></p>
April 7, 2026
Mary Wollstonecraft with Sylvana Tomaselli
<p>In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Sylvana Tomaselli, Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and a leading scholar of the history of political thought to discuss the work of Mary Wollstonecraft: writer, philosopher, and a bold critic of the social and political conventions of her time.</p><p>Together, Tomaselli and Marchant explore what makes Wollstonecraft’s work so striking and enduring: her arguments for women’s education, her critique of inequality and dependency, and her insistence that reason and virtue—not custom or hierarchy—should shape human life. From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to her reflections on revolution, the conversation highlights Wollstonecraft as a thinker who challenged the assumptions of her age and offered a powerful account of freedom, independence, and moral responsibility.</p><p><br></p><p>Texts Referenced in the Episode:</p><p><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169033/wollstonecraft" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics - Sylvana Tomaselli</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/wollstonecraft-vindication-rights-men-and-vindication-rights-woman-and-hints?format=PB&isbn=9780521436335" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints - Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli</a></p><p><a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300176476/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">A Vindication of the Rights of Woman - Mary Wollstonecraft</a></p><p><a href="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-collected-letters-of-mary-wollstonecraft/9780231131421/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft - Mary Wollstonecraft edited by Janet Todd</a></p><p><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/history/reflections-revolution-france" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund Burke</a></p><p><a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile/9780465019311/?lens=basic-books" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Emile or On Education - Jean-Jacques Rousseau</a></p>
March 24, 2026
Lauren Berlant with Michael Dango
<p>In this episode, Juliette Marchant is joined by Michael Dango, Associate Professor of English at Rice University, to discuss the work of Lauren Berlant: an interdisciplinary theorist of affect, intimacy, and political life, and one of the most original and influential thinkers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.</p><p>Together, they trace Berlant’s intellectual arc, from their earlywork on national fantasy and citizenship to later writings on affect, precarity, and the ordinary, while reflecting on the attachments and everyday forms through which political life is lived. From The Anatomy of National Fantasy and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City to Cruel Optimism, the conversation highlights Berlant’s distinctive method and the enduring force of concepts that illuminate how what sustains us can also hold us in place.</p><p><br></p><p>Texts Referenced in the Episode:</p><p><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-queen-of-america-goes-to-washington-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Queen of America Goes to Washington City - Lauren Berlant</a></p><p><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo3684624.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life - Lauren Berlant</a></p><p><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-female-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture - Lauren Berlant</a></p><p><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Cruel Optimism - Lauren Berlant</a></p><p><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-inconvenience-of-other-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">On the Inconvenience of Other People - Lauren Berlant</a></p><p><a href="https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/448884" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Sex in Public - Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner</a></p><p><a href="https://capaciousjournal.com/article/genre-flailing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Genre Flailing - Lauren Berlant</a></p><p><a href="https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/crisis-style" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair - Michael Dango</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/madonnas-erotica-9781501388996/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Madonna's Erotica - Michael Dango</a></p>
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