Noëlle Vahanian is Professor of Philosophy at Lebanon Valley College, in Annville, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on genocide, world philosophies and philosophy of religion. She is the author of Language, Desire, and Theology: A Genealogy of the Will to Speak (Routledge, 2003), The Rebellious No: Variations on a Secular Theology of Language (Fordham University Press, 2014), and most recently the co-author of An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Columbia University Press, 2016).