Penelope Deutscher is a doctor in Philosophy and occupies the Joan and Sarepa Harrisonen Chair of the Philosophy Department of the University of Northwestern, United States. She is a specialist in contemporary French philosophy and her work focuses on the intersection of critical theory and gender studies and sexuality. She is the author of Yielding Gender: Feminism, Deonstruction and History of Philosophy (1997); A Politics Ofimpossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (2002); How to Read Derrida (2005); The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoi: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance (2008). She has also coked anthologies such as Foucault / Derrida: Fifty Years Later (2016) and Critical Theory In Critical Times (2017).