Education

Ph.D., politics, New School for Social Research, New York, New York
B.A., political science, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Biography

Verónica Zebadúa-Yáñez was born and raised in the south of Mexico. She has worked in feminist and human rights civil society organizations in Mexico and has over seven years of professional experience as a program specialist in women’s rights and gender-based violence at the United Nations. Professor Zebadúa-Yáñez specializes on feminist political theory; decolonial, transnational, and Latin American feminisms; the politics of women’s and LGBTI rights; and French feminist philosophy.

Prior to joining Spelman, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia and a Collegiate Fellow in the University Honors Program at the University of Maryland. She has published in the journals Contemporary Political Theory, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and Arendt Studies. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript titled Visions of Freedom: The Plural Genres of Feminist Political Theory, as well as on a project examining the archive of feminist practices of violence.

Courses Taught

Introduction to Comparative Women’s Studies
Feminist Theory

Research Interests

Feminist political theory; decolonial, transnational, and Latin American feminisms; the politics of women’s and LGBTI rights; French feminist philosophy.

Publications

“Sexualized Violence and Feminist Counter-Violence: A Critical Exchange,” Contemporary Political Theory 22, 2023.

“‘But I am a rebel after all!’ The Politics of Marginality in Arendt’s Life of Rahel,” Arendt Studies 4, 2020.

“Reading the Lives of Others: Biography as Political Thought in Hannah Arendt and Simone Beauvoir,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 33:1, 2018.

“Becoming Lesbian, Unbecoming Woman: Wittig’s Theoretical and Literary Experiments.” In Maira Abreu and Dominique Bourque (eds.), Understanding Monique Wittig, Understanding Modernism, New York: Bloomsbury. (Forthcoming 2025).