Surti Singh

Surti Singh is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo. She specializes in 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, Aesthetics, and Feminism. Her recent work explores issues in aesthetics from the vantage point of early critical theory; theories of the image and the imaginary within the framework of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and social theory; and feminist approaches to subjectivity. Her work has appeared in The Aesthetic Ground of Critical Theory: New Readings of Benjamin and Adorno (Rowman and Littlefield: 2015), New Forms of Revolt: Essays on Kristeva’s Intimate Politics (SUNY: 2017), and is forthcoming in Subjectivity and the Political (Routledge: 2017).