Shannon L. Mariotti is Professor of Political Science at Trinity University. Her scholarship focuses on democratic theory and practice, with a focus on the politics of everyday life in marginal spaces. She is the author of Adorno and Democracy: The American Years (2016), Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity (2010), and co-editor of A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson (2016). Her current research focuses on the emerging area of "witch studies," analyzing folk-tales and fairy-tales as vernacular wisdom to present the witch as a political theorist who imagines alternative worlds. She is also co-editor of The Witch: A Reader in Feminist Political Theory (forthcoming 2026).