University Lecturer in European Cinema, Fellow in French at Magdalen College
 

Research 

In addition to my ongoing interest in philosophical film Aesthetics, my research focuses on the interface of ethics and political ideals. I am interested in notions of alienation, dignity and respect in the context of contemporary democracy and in relation to the history of liberal thought and its critics, including in particular the twentieth-century philosophers Hannah Arendt, Georg Lukacs, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hans Blumenberg, Claude Lefort and Jacques Derrida. I welcome doctoral applications relating, in one way or the other, to this broad area of study. Below are listed four articles in which I present this research programme.

‘Spy Films and Intellectual Alienation’, Cultural and Religious Studies, 2019

‘Miscommunication and Democratic Membership’, in Miscommunications, Errors, Media, ed. Timothy Barker and Maria Korolkova, Bloomsbury, 2021

‘Nominalist Intersubjectivity’, Eco-Ethica 11, 2023

‘Alienation and Authenticity: From Hannah Arendt to Billy Wilder’, Eco-Ethica 12, 2025