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Magnolia Pauker, PhD Candidate, The Social Justice Institute, UBC + PhD(ABD), Philosophy, Media and Communications, The European Graduate School

Magnolia is lecturer in Critical and Cultural Studies at ECUAD on the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, Canada. Currently writing her dissertation entitled, “Philosophy as Radical Journalism: The Public Intellectual and The Rise of the Philosopher Journalist,” her practice takes up the philosophical interview as a model for critical engagement, knowledge production, and pedagogy. Sketching the contours of philosophy, cultural studies, and journalism, she is committed to working in response to the contemporary. In her ongoing dedication to learning in public, she co-facilitates a feminist free school with Randy Lee Cutler, Pleasure + Protest, Sometimes Simultaneously! Magnolia is co-editor of InterViews in Performance Philosophy: Crossings and Conversations, a collection of original essays and interviews with Judith Butler, Alphonso Lingis, Catharine Malabou, Avital Ronell, and others (Palgrave Macmillan 2017).