Rate My Professor Catherine Rottenberg

Professor Catherine Rottenberg is Professor of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her research investigates the convergence of feminism and neoliberalism as well as the politics of care. Before joining Goldsmiths, she was a faculty member in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. She previously held positions as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and Chair of the Gender Studies Program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. She has also served as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie visiting professor at Goldsmiths and held visiting roles including scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, visiting professor at Columbia University, fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, and postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rottenberg is the author of The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Performing Americanness: Race, Class, and Gender in Modern African-American and Jewish-American Literature (University Press of New England, 2008). She is co-author of The Care Manifesto (Verso, 2020) and editor of This Is Not A Feminism Textbook! (2023) and Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side (SUNY Press, 2013). Her work has contributed to academic discussions on neoliberal feminism and related cultural and political themes.