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Michael Milona

Jeta Mulaj

Assistant Professor
EducationBA (Villanova University); MA (DePaul University); PhD (DePaul University)
OfficeJOR-428
Phone416-979-5000 ext. 55-4057
Areas of ExpertiseFeminist Philosophy, Queer Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Marxism, Critical Theory, Decolonial Theory, Eastern European Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
https://www.jetamulaj.com/
 (PDF file)  Letter to Prospective Graduate Students

 
Selected Publications

Selected Writings of Frigga Haug on Experience, Labour, and Critique. Edited by Jeta Mulaj and Alexandra Colligs (Forthcoming 2027, Routledge).

“Fetishism as Reification? Gillian Rose and Critical Theory,” Philosophy Today. Forthcoming.

“Bourgeois Cruising: A Critique of Lugones’ Theory of World-Traveling,” The Past in the Present: Essays on History and Critique, ed. by Christian Lotz and Matthew Kelley (Forthcoming, Lexington Books). 

“Linen-Money-Bible: A Review of Enrique Dussel’s The Theological Metaphors of Marx,” Political Theology.

“Letters of Blood and Fire: Silvia Federici on the Crisis of Capitalism.” Symposium.

“The Dark Side of Decolonial Theory: The East of Western Europe.” Decolonial Manual (Forthcoming, Punctum Books).

“World-Travelling to the Servants’ Quarters: The Pseudo-Concreteness of Lugones’ Decolonial Feminism.” (external link)  Hypatia. 

“Ontology as Ideology: A Critique of Butler’s Theory of Precariousness.” (external link)  Constellations.

“Kosova: A Note from the Wreckage of Anti-Imperialism.” Continental Thought & Theory. 

“What is Immanent Critique? Recovering Marcuse’s Critical Theory of Society,” The Marcusean Mind, ed. Eduardo Altheman, Jina Fast, Nicole K. Mayberry, and Sid Simpson (Routledge). 

“Creolization’s Newness: The Dialectic of Novelty and Sameness,” Creolizing Critical Theory, ed. Kris Sealey and Benjamin P. Davis (Rowman & Littlefield).

“A Critique of Queer Phenomenology: Gender and the Sexual,” Studies in Gender and Sexuality 20 (3): 189-203.

 
Selected Talks and Presentations

“Reclaiming Stability,” Sidney Verba Lecture Series, Harvard University. 2026 

“Materialist Feminism Today: Federici, Crisis, and Emancipation,” Response to Silvia Federici, 63rd Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference. 2025

 “The Fragmented Self: Rethinking Emancipation in Feminist and Queer Theory,” Keynote for What’s Next for Feminism?, London School of Economics. 2025

“A Critique of Fragmented Subjectivity,” Planery Lecture, Philosophy and Social Science Conference, Prague. 2025.

“A Revolutionary Conception of Stability: Adorno and Marx,” Goethe University Frankfurt. 2025

“Blood and Fire: Silvia Federici and the Crisis of Capitalism,” Universität Kassel. 2025

“Static and Dynamic: Towards an Emancipatory Stability,” Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. 2025

“Mors Immortalis: Adorno’s Analysis of the Static and Dynamic Elements of Society,” 11th Association for Adorno Studies, Universität Kassel. 2025

“Critical Theory and Creolization,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology. 2025

"“Immanent Critique: Critical Theory and Marxism,” Rochester University." 2024.

"“The Emergence of the Fragmented Subject in Capitalism and Feminism,” University of Toronto. 2024

“The Politics of Disruption: Adorno and Benjamin on Emancipatory Praxis,” Philosophy and Social Science, Prague, 2024.

“Can Women Reproduce Humans? A Critique of Reproductive Labor Theory,” Critical Theory Conference, Rome, 2024

“Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique of Capitalism,” Luxemburg Symposium, Society for Women of Ideas. 2024

"“The Emergence of the Fragmented Subject in Capitalism and Feminism,” Continental Philosophy Research Group, University of Toronto, 2024.