Shannon Winnubst is Chair and Professor of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Trained in the discipline of philosophy, she moved into the vibrant field of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies in 2008. She has written two books, Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics (Columbia University Press: 2015) and Queering Freedom (Indiana University Press: 2006), as well as dozens of essays on the thorny dynamics of race, sexuality, pleasure, desire, classical liberalism, and neoliberalism. She has also served as an editor of several projects, most importantly of philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism.