bio
I have been a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham since 2018.
I did my PhD at Sussex, a research masters at Birkbeck, and my undergraduate degree at Cambridge, all in philosophy. I also taught in the philosophy department at King’s College London and on the Masters in Public Policy at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.
From 2009 to 2010 I was a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard, where I studied German, gender studies, and intellectual history as well as philosophy. In 2017 I was a DAAD Visiting Fellow at the Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, translating texts in the Max Horkheimer archive as part of my PhD project.
I also have a Masters in Piano Performance from the Royal College of Music, which included an ERASMUS semester at the Universität der Künste, Berlin.
learning by doing
Much as I’ve learned from books and classes, I’ve learnt so much more from participating in protests, strikes, direct action, campaigning, and other forms of collective struggle. I try to keep learning.
FAQs
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That’s got to be Angela Davis, the extraordinary Black feminist theorist and revolutionary. Look her up if you don’t know her!
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My name is Polish and is short for Konstancja. Yes I do know that it means ‘cat’ in Russian! 🐈⬛ My parents aren’t Polish and I wasn’t born in Poland, but I lived there for three years during my early childhood (in Gdańsk and Toruń). My mum previously spent a year in Łódź, 1987-88.
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Aberdeen (North East Scotland) where I grew up from the age of 5. I left when I finished school in 2006 so no, it’s not that strong, and you’re right, it sounds different from a Glaswegian accent. I don’t mind if you mistake it for Irish. My mum’s family background is part Irish.
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They are my beloved familiars, Subcomandante Pickles, also known as McWickles (the mama) and her li’l kits, Croissant and Wicket.
