Claudia Leeb is an Associate Professor of Political Theory in the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at Washington State University. She holds a PhD in Political Theory and an MA in Feminist Theory from the New School for Social Research in New York City, and a PhD and an MS in Psychology from the University of Vienna, Austria. She works at the intersection of early Frankfurt school critical theory, feminist theory, and psychoanalytic theory to address questions of power and socio-political change in contemporary societies. She is the author of several books, including her recent The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence (2018, Edinburgh University Press), and Power and Feminist Agency in Capitalism: Toward a New Theory of the Political Subject (2017, Oxford University Press), for which she received the 2018 ASCINA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) award for research excellence. She has published articles in several journals, including Political Theory, Perspectives of Politics, Theory & Event, Contemporary Political Theory, Constellations, Social Philosophy Today, Philosophy & Social Criticism, The Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, and Radical Philosophy Review. She has also contributed several book chapters to anthologies on Frankfurt school critical theory. She is currently working on a new book project on the rise of the far right titled: Analyzing the Far Right: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Critical Theory Perspective.