Staff profile
Biography
I'm a PhD student in the philosophy department, and my research is supported by a Durham Doctoral Studentship. My thesis analyses a series of underexplored examples of sexual objectification, including masculine sex objects, objectification within healthcare, and contemporary forms of pornography. I use these examples to critique and enrich our understandings of sexual objectification, its ethics, and its politics. I adopt a broadly pluralistic approach to my research, drawing from a range of traditions including contemporary analytic philosophy, feminist philosophy, and some continental philosophy.
Beyond the philosophy of love and sex, I also have research interests in ethics more broadly, feminism, post-Kantian philosophy, and political and social philosophy.
Research Interests
- Ethics (applied, meta-ethics, and normative)
- Feminism and gender studies
- Love, sex, relationships
- Political and social philosophy
- Post-Kantian philosophy
Teaching
Discussion group leader:
- Moral Theory (2nd year module)
- Political Philosophy (2nd year module)
- Being Human: An Introduction to Post-Kantian Philosophy (1st year module)
- Ethics and Values (1st year module)
- Knowledge and Reality (1st year module)
Other Roles
- Eidos President - The departmental PGR society; organising the weekly PhD work-in-progress seminar and social events.
- Departmental Staff Student Consultative Committee PGR Representative.
- Love Reading Group (University of Leeds) (Participant)
- Continental Research Group (Participant)