Sonia Arribas has a Ph.D. in Political Science (New School for Social Research, 2004). Her dissertation won the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Theory from the New School. She is currently the principal investigator in the research project MINECO FFI2015-70273-P “‘Gender’, Woman and the Feminine in the 18th and 19th Century Philosophical and Literary References Studied by Walter Benjamin”. She collaborates as a lecturer in the Master in Theatrical Creation of the UC3M, and as the coordinator of a Research Group in the Sección Clínica de Barcelona. Previously, she was the principal investigator in the project MINECO FFI2012-36339 “Damaged Life and Frames of the Sensible” and a researcher in groups at the New School, the Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung (Berlin) and the CSIC (Madrid). She has also been a lecturer at Bremen University, Lehman College (CUNY), Marymount Manhattan College and Valladolid University. Her research areas are: critical theory, literature and philosophy, and psychoanalysis.