Please answer the following question: Facts: - known for: '' '' -lrb- book -rrb- vibrant matter : a political ecology of things - notable ideas: vibrant matter - workplaces: department of arts and sciences of political science , johns hopkins university school - school tradition: speculative realism - birth date: 31 july 1957 - main interests: political theory - name: jane bennett - nationality: north american - alma mater: university of massachusetts Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jane bennett -lrb- political theorist -rrb- .
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jane bennett -lrb- born july 31 , 1957 -rrb- is an american professor at the department of political science , johns hopkins university school of arts and sciences .she is also the editor of the academic journal '' political theory '' .bennett 's work considers ontological ideas about the relationship between humans and ' things ' , what she calls '' vital materialism '' , '' '' what counts as the material of vital materialism ?is it only human labour and the socio-economic entities made by men using raw materials ?or is materiality more potent than that ?how can political theory do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in every event and every stabilization ?is there a form of theory that can acknowledge a certain ' thing-power ' , that is , the irreducibility of objects to the human meanings or agendas they also embody ? '' ''in her book , '' vibrant matter : a political ecology of things '' , bennett 's argument is that , '' edibles , commodities , storms , and metals act as quasi agents , with their own trajectories , potentialities and tendencies . ''public lectures she has given include '' impersonal sympathy '' , a talk theorizing ' sympathy ' in which she considered the alchemist-physician paracelsus -lrb- 1493-1541 -rrb- and walt whitman 's collection of poetry , '' leaves of grass '' .