Ziarek left Notre Dame in 2003 after accepting a 2004 appointment at SUNY Buffalo as the Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature and Global Gender Studies and Sexuality, where she remains as of 2024.
Further, starting in 2007 and continuing into the present, she has been the Primary Visiting Faculty Member at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts at the University of Maine.
All her interdisciplinary publications address ethical, artistic, and philosophical aspects of democratic theory and culture from feminist intersectional perspectives.
• The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism (SUNY Press, 1995) Edited Books: • Continental Theory at Buffalo: Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection.
Co-edited with James Bono and Tim Dean, (New York: Fordham UP, 2008) • Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s Polis.
Co-edited with Tina Chanter (SUNY Press, Series in Gender Theory, 2005) • Gombrowicz’s Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality (SUNY Press, 1998) • Ziarek received the 2019-20 Book Prize of Symposium: Canadian Journal for Continental Philosophy for her Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics: Towards Democratic Plurality and Reproductive Justice, which was co-authored with Rosalyn Diprose.