Jodi Dean is a political theorist and writer who holds the Harter Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. She received her BA from Princeton University and her MA, MPhil, and PhD from Columbia University, New York. Her research and writing focus on the contemporary space of politics. She has authored and edited eleven books. Recent publications include: The Communist Horizon (2012); Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive (2010); and Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics (2009).[1] Her most recent book, Crowds and Party, is forthcoming in 2016, published by Verso. Dean lives and works in Geneva, NY and New York. [Last updated 2016]