Laura Hengehold is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Body Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007) and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Wiley/Blackwell, 2017). She is also translator and editor of Law and the Public Sphere in Africa: La Palabre and Other Writings by Jean Godefroy Bidima (Indiana University Press, 2013) and translator of Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa by Seloua Luste Boulbina (Indiana University Press, 2019).