Paola Bacchetta is Professor and the Chair of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She is a critical theorist whose research focuses on gender, sexuality, colonialism, race, religion, capitalism, Empire, and other relations of power, along with local, translocal to transnational feminist and queer activism. She also works on right-wing movements, gender and sexuality. Her areas of specialization are India, France, the U.S., Brazil and Italy. Professor Bachetta recieved a Berkeley -Portugal Faculty mobility grant to give a talk on her new book Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects and Feminist and Queer Alliances at the University of Coimbra in Fall 2026.