Surti Singh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Her research interests include Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Global Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Feminist Philosophy, and Aesthetics. She is Co-Principal Investigator of the research project, Extimaces: Critical Theory from the Global South, and currently serves as President of the Association for Adorno Studies. Recent publications include "Dark play: Aesthetic resistance in Lukács, Benjamin and Adorno," Philosophy and Social Criticism (2020),  "Adorno's Aesthetic Theory: The Artwork as Monad” in The ‘Aging’ of Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: 50 Years Later (2021) and "Mahdi Amel and the Non-Identical," Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory (Forthcoming).