Elena Tzelepis completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece. Previously she has taught at Columbia University, New York, and held research positions at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Center for the Study of Social Difference of Columbia University and at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London. She works on critique and social change, on the intersections of ethics, politics and art, and the politics of difference.

Elena is a member of the European Feminist Platform.