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Cat Bohannon is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, “The Best American Nonrequired Reading,” The Georgia Review, The Story Collider, and Poets Against the War. She lives with her family in Seattle. *Cat Bohannon photo credit Stefano Giovannini

Kate Manne is an Associate Professor of the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, where she has been teaching since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2011 to 2013. Professor Manne did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT from 2006 to 2011, with the generous support of a General Sir John Monash scholarship. She was an undergraduate at the University of Melbourne (her hometown), where she studied philosophy, logic, and computer science.

Professor Manne works in moral philosophy (especially metaethics and moral psychology), feminist philosophy, and social philosophy. She also enjoys writing opinion pieces, essays, and reviews for a wider audience.

To learn more about Professor Manne’s background and interests, explore her January 2018 interview with Clifford Sosis on his website, “What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?” She also had an extended conversation with Ezra Klein on his podcast in early 2019.

Late in 2017, Professor Manne published an academic/trade “crossover” book called “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny” about the nature, function, and persistence of misogyny. Her second book, “Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women” came out in August 2020. Professor Manne’s third book, “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia” came out in January 2024. For further information, subscribe to her Substack newsletter, called “More to Hate.”