Professor at The European Graduate School / EGS

Vanessa Lemm is Professor of Political Philosophy and Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Provost at the University of Greenwich, London, UK. She is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published widely on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, contemporary political thought, biopolitics, posthumanism, animal and plant studies. She is the author of Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being (Fordham University Press, 2009), Nietzsche y el pensamiento político contemporáneo (Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2013) and Homo Natura: Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics (EUP, 2020). She recently published with Miguel Vatter the edited volume The Viral Politics of Covid-19: Nature, Home and Planetary Health (Palgrave 2022) and Nietzsche’s Natures (De Gruyter 2024) with Antonia Ulrich. She is the Editor of Nietzsche-Studien and associated book series at De Gruyter. Her work has been translated to 6 languages.