1/10/11 → 16/04/16
I hold a PhD in Philosophy and Modern Languages from Royal Holloway University of London and have 10 years of teaching experience in Literature, Philosophy, and ESOL at university level. Additionally, for the past four years, I have been tutoring at-risk youth, students with learning disabilities, and GCSE and A-level students in RE, English, and French.
My research is motivated by questions about the relationship of form to thought, particularly how genre and style inform what philosophy is able to say and what is considered philosophically relevant. Within this, I am particularly concerned with the dynamic between inherited forms and human freedom, and in the ethical questions involved in communication. My Ph.D. thesis is a genre study of the essay as a performative and therapeutic response to philosophical scepticism.
My interests fall somewhere between Philosophy and Literature, with a methodology that is informed by phenomenology, hermeneutics, and critical theory. I have a particular interest in 19th-century German idealism and Romanticism, Kierkegaard and existentialism, and the work of Stanley Cavell. Other research interests include: European Romanticisms, philosophy of religion, philosophical approaches to literature, and performance studies.
My non-academic professional experience centres on responses to climate change in civil society, particularly the development of environmentally and socially responsible business models.
2017-2018 VISITING LECTURER IN PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER
2012-2018 LECTURER AND TEACHING ASSISTANT IN PHILOSOPHY, ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
2008-2009 MAÎTRE-ASSISTANT, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS NANTERRE (France)
2006-2008 ASSOCIATE INSTRUCTOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, INDIANA UNIVERSITY (USA)
2005-06 VISITING TEACHING ASSISTANT, HEC PARIS (France)
2004-05 TEACHING ASSISTANT IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES, INDIANA UNIVERSITY
2003-04 ASSOCIATE INSTRUCTOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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