Mari Ruti (PhD, Comparative Literature, Harvard) is Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of numerous books, including The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects (Columbia, 2017), and Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Psychological and Emotional Costs of Everyday Life (Columbia, 2018). She specializes in critical theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory.
