Katerina Kolozova
Katerina "Katarina" Kolozova is a Macedonian academic, author and philosopher.
She is a director of and professor of gender studies and philosophy at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje and a professor of the University American College Skopje, both in Skopje, North Macedonia. She has been associated with speculative realism and has written about the non-philosophy of François Laruelle and the works of Karl Marx. She has been a member of the Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale, with headquarters in Paris, France, since it was founded. She is a board member of The New Centre for Research & Practice of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Biography
Kolozova defended her PhD The Hellenes and Death in April 1998. Her doctoral research entailed co-supervised work abroad with Jean-Pierre Vernant in Paris for which she earned a scholarship from the French Ministry of foreign affairs, ISH Ljubljana co-supervised by Svetlana Slapasak. The international dimension of her PhD research entailed a year-long fellowship at the Gender Studies Department at the Central European University in Budapest, in the form of "Doctoral Support Program" for which she earned a full scholarship and a stipend from CEU. In 2009, Kolozova was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley working under the peer supervision of Judith Butler.Her teaching career started at her alma mater Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje as a graduate-level assistant professor in gender and communications studies–first appointment in the academic year of 1999–2000.
Since 2021, Kolozova has been appointed Visiting Faculty at the Center for Philosophical Technologies at Arizona State University. She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California-Berkeley. Kolozova was a visiting professor at the University of Sarajevo and the University of Sofia. She is a visiting professor at the Political Studies Department of the Faculty of Media and Communications Singidunum University in Belgrade.
In February 2022, Kolozova was ranked #14 of the 25 most influential women in philosophy according to Academic Influence in the past 10 years.
Stance on the Macedonian–Bulgarian dispute
Kolozova is one of the public figures who strive to improve the relations between Bulgaria and North Macedonia. She is a member of the Friendship Club between the two countries. Kolozova maintains North Macedonia lacks political will to improve the relationships between the two states, but the Bulgarian side attaches too much importance to issue of the common history as a condition for improving the relations. Her understandings on that issue, are not well received in North Macedonia.Stance on third wave feminism
Her monograph Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy published with Columbia University Press, 2014 is a provocation to the poststructuralist paradigm in feminist philosophy, seeking to vindicate the relevance of the notions of the "One", the Real, arguing for repositioning of third wave feminism, or at least aspects of it, in a new form of realism, often associated with speculative realism. The book has had some notable traction, which amounted to the invitation to Kolozova to author the chapter on Poststructuralism in the first in over 20 years Oxford Handbook of Feminist Philosophy.Selected works
BooksThe Death and the Greeks. On the Philosophical and Traditional Concepts of Death in Ancient Greece, Skopje: Kultura, 2000.The Real and 'I': On the Limit and the Self, Skopje: EuroBalkan Press, 2006. The Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, Toward a Radical Metaphysics of Socialism: Marx and Laruelle, Brooklyn, New York: Punctum Books, 2016, The Lived Revolution: Solidarity with the Body in Pain as the New Political Universal. Skopje: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities-Skopje, 2016 Translation from Ancient Greek of Euripides' Medea, with an Introductory Study and Commentaries. Skopje: Ad Verbum, 2016. Capitalism’s Holocaust of Animals: A Non-Marxist Critique of Capital, Philosophy and Patriarchy. London UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019,- Co-authored with Paul Cockshott and Greg Michaelson, "Defending Materialism: The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy," signed with Bloomsbury Academic