Katerina Kolozova

She is a director of and professor of gender studies and philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities,[2] Skopje and a professor of the University American College Skopje, both in Skopje, North Macedonia.[3][4] She has been associated with speculative realism[5] and has written about the non-philosophy of François Laruelle and the works of Karl Marx.[6] She has been a member of the Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale (International Organization of Non-Philosophy),[7] with headquarters in Paris, France, since it was founded.[8] She is a board member of The New Centre for Research & Practice of Grand Rapids, Michigan.[9] Since 2021, Kolozova has been appointed Visiting Faculty at the Center for Philosophical Technologies[10] at Arizona State University. She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California-Berkeley. Kolozova was a visiting professor at the University of Sarajevo and the University of Sofia.[11] She is a visiting professor at the Political Studies Department of the Faculty of Media and Communications Singidunum University in Belgrade.[12] Since February 2022 till February 2023 (and still), Kolozova has been ranked #14 of the 25 most influential women in philosophy according to Academic Influence in the past 10 years.[13]

Her teaching career started at her Alma Mater Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (ISPPI) as a graduate level Assistant professor in gender and communications studies (first appointment in the academic year of 1999-2000. She defended her PhD The Hellens and Death when she was only 28 years old (April 1998).[14]

She defended her PhD at the Faculty of Philosophy Skopje Ss Cyril and Methodius University in 1998, while her doctoral research entailed co-supervised work abroad with Jean Pierre Vernant in Paris (EHESS: Centre Louis Gernet) for which she earned a scholarship from the French Ministry of foreign affairs, ISH Ljubljana co-supervised by Svetlana Slapasak.[15][16] The international dimension of her PhD research entailed a year-long fellowship at the Gender Studies Department at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest (now in Vienna), in the form of "Doctoral Support Program" for which she earned a full scholarship and a stipend from CEU. [17] In 2009, Kolozova was a visiting/scholar (post-doc with a Fulbright scholarship) at UC-Berkeley working under the peer supervision of Judith Butler [18]

Books

• The Death and the Greeks. On the Philosophical and Traditional Concepts of Death in Ancient Greece, Skopje: Kultura, 2000.[26]
• The Real and 'I': On the Limit and the Self, Skopje: EuroBalkan Press ("Identities Series of Books"), 2006. ISBN 9989136483 (in English) [27]
• The Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780231536431 [28]
• Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle, Brooklyn, New York: Punctum Books, 2016, ISBN 9780692492413
• The Lived Revolution: Solidarity with the Body in Pain as the New Political Universal. Skopje: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities-Skopje, 2016 (in English) ISBN 9786084755104
• Translation from Ancient Greek of Euripides' Medea, with an Introductory Study and Commentaries. Skopje: Ad Verbum, 2016. (in Macedonian) ISBN 9786084627401
• Capitalism’s Holocaust of Animals: A Non-Marxist Critique of Capital, Philosophy and Patriarchy. London UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, ISBN 9781350109681
• Co-authored with Paul Cockshott and Greg Michaelson, "Materialism and Mechanicity" forthcoming with Sublation Press (New York/London UK) [29] [30]

As editor

• (editor) Classic Readings in Gender Theory, Skopje: EuroBalkan Press, 2003.[26]
• (co-editor with Svetlana Slapšak and Jelisaveta Blagojevic) Gender and Identity: Theories from/on Southeastern Europe Belgrade/Utrecht: Advanced Thematic Network for Women’s Studies in Europe-ATHENA, 2006. (in English) ISBN 868651300X
• (co-editor and contributor) Conversations with Judith Butler: Crisis of the Unitary Subject Skopje: "Euro-Balkan" Press, 2007. (in Macedonian and in English) ISBN 9989136505
• (co-editor with Eileen Joy) After the Speculative Turn: Realism, Philosophy and Feminism, Brooklyn, New York: Punctum Books, 2016. ISBN 9780998237534.
• (co-editor with Niccolò Milanese) “Illiberal Democracies” in Europe: An Authoritarian Response to the Crisis of Illiberalism Washington D.C: Illiberalism Studies Program, The Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University, 2023 (in English) ISBN 9798986583136

• Gjorgji Kolozov, her father, an actor