Critical Theory Winter 2026 Mini-Seminar:
"In the Shadow of the Commodity"
Alyssa Battistoni
Barnard College
When: January 14th-16th, 2026 from 4-6pm
Where: HG 1010
Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. She works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. Alyssa is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019), and Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton 2025). Her academic work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, NOMOS, Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, and the Socialist Register, and she writes frequently for publications including the New Left Review, n+1, Boston Review, the Nation, Dissent, and Jacobin. She is a member of the Climate & Community Institute and on the editorial board of Dissent.