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After receiving my Ph.D. in Divinity from Emmanuel College, I spent the spring semester of 2016 teaching philosophy of religion and systematic theology at the Institute of Literature, Intellectual History, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg. In Michaelmas 2016, I returned to Emmanuel College as a research fellow. I joined the 'Ambivalence Nordic Nature: Gift, Guilt, Grace' project at the University of Oslo as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in November 2020. My book, Effort Grace: Spiritual Exercise Philosophy, published by Bloomsbury in 2020, tackles the importance of Simone Weil’s concept of attention within critical theory and practice, situating it in the context of French reflexive ‘spiritualist’ philosophy. I have published widely on environmental ethics and am currently working with Dr. Alice Tarbuck on a co-authored monograph addressing the attention to spiritual technology and its role in transforming the earth, titled Spellwork for Damaged Planet: Magic Ecology. I supervise undergraduate papers and teach a graduate MPhil module on theology in the Anthropocene, collaborating with colleagues to address urgent cultural and environmental concerns through various interdisciplinary initiatives.
University of Oslo, Faculty of Theology • Oslo
Joined the 'Ambivalence Nordic Nature: Gift, Guilt, Grace' project.
Emmanuel College • Cambridge
Conducted research and taught philosophy of religion.
Institute of Literature, Intellectual History, Religion, University of Gothenburg • Gothenburg
Taught philosophy of religion and systematic theology.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.