The Witch: A Reader in Feminist Political Theory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783032105134)

Katie Howard is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. Her work focuses on feminist philosophy and political philosophy, especially the work of Hannah Arendt, with additional research interests in contemporary affect theory. Her work has appeared in the journals Raisons Politiques, Journal of World Philosophies, and Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, and The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Shannon Mariotti is Professor of Political Science at Trinity University, in San Antonio, Texas. Her scholarship focuses on democratic theory and practice, with a focus on 19th century American Transcendentalism and Romanticism as well as 20th century Critical Social Theory and Modernism. She is the author of Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010) as well as Adorno and Democracy: The American Years (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016). She is also co-editor of A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016). Her most recent book is Contemplative Democracy: Politics, Practice, and Pedagogy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025). She is co-editor of Contemplative Praxis and Politics (forthcoming from Routledge, 2026).