Alcoff, Linda

Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center. She works primarily in continental philosophy, epistemology, feminist theory, Latino philosophy, and philosophy of race. Alcoff earned her B.A. in philosophy in 1980 and her M.A. in philosophy in 1983, both from Georgia State University. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University in 1987.

Alcoff’s books and anthologies include Feminist Epistemologies co-edited with Elizabeth Potter (Routledge, 1993), Thinking From the Underside of History co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta (2000),Epistemology: The Big Questions (1998), Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge(1996), Identities co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta (2002),Singing in the Fire: Tales of Women in Philosophy (2003),Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self (2006), The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy co-edited with Eva Feder Kittay (2006), and Identity Politics Reconsidered co-edited with Michael Hames-Garcia, Satya Mohanty and Paula Moya (2006). She has written over fifty articles concerning Foucault, sexual violence, the politics of epistemology, gender and race identity, and Latino issues. She is currently at work on two new books: a collection of feminist essays, and an account of political epistemology. Also forthcoming are an anthology co- edited with Mariana Ortega on the topic of race and nationalism, and two anthologies co-edited with Jack Caputo, one on St. Paul and one on feminism, sexuality, and the return of religion.

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