Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and holds the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School. She is the author of Gender Trouble (Routledge); Bodies That Matter (Routledge) Precarious Life; Frames of War; and Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly.