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Mary Caputi holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University in political theory, a Master’s Degree in International Relations from The University of Chicago, and a Master’s Degree in Italian Studies from California State University, Long Beach. At Cal State, she taught courses in political theory, feminist thought, and critical thinking for 30 years. Most recently, she co-edited Research Handbook on Feminist Political Thought with Patricia Moynagh, published by Edward Elgar Press (2024). She has also published Slow Culture and the American Dream: A Slow and Curvy Philosophy for the 21st Century (Lexington Books, 2022), Feminism and Power: The Need for Critical Theory (Lexington Books, 2013), A Kinder, Gentler America: Melancholia and the Mythical 1950s (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and Voluptuous Yearnings: A Feminist Theory of the Obscene (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994). With Amirhosein Khandizaji, she co-authored David Riesman and Critical Theory: Autonomy versus Emancipation (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). She also co-edited and contributed to two collections of essays: Teaching Marx and Critical Theory in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Bryant Sculos (Brill, 2019), and Jacques Derrida and the Future of the Liberal Arts, co-edited with Vincent Del Casino (Bloomsbury, 2013). She served as editor of Politics & Gender from 2016-2019. Professor Caputi has taught abroad on several occasions in Florence and Rome, Italy. She is now at work on a book about American counterculture in the 21st century.