KATRINA MITCHESON
katrinamitcheson@gmail.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
History of Philosophy, particularly Nietzsche, Kant, Freud, Foucault and Plato.
Ethics, particularly the care of the self.
Political and Social Philosophy, particularly methodologies of social and political critique.
Aesthetics, particularly the philosophy of visual art and photography.
EDUCATION
October 2004
- May 2009
PhD in Philosophy (passed with no corrections), University of Warwick.
Thesis: ‘Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Overcoming and the Practice of Truth’.
Supervised by Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson.
Examined by Professor John Richardson (New York University) and Dr
Peter Poellner (University of Warwick).
October 2002October 2003
MA Social and Political Thought (Distinction), University of Sussex.
Dissertation: ‘Evolutionary Theory and Social Hierarchy’.
October 1998
- July 2001
BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2:1), University of Oxford.
Dissertation: ‘Objectivity and Subjectivity in Morality’.
PUBLICATIONS
2010
‘Allowing the Accidental; the interplay between Intentionality and Realism in
Photographic Art’, Contemporary Aesthetics 8.
Review: ‘Artificial Presence, Philosophical Studies in Image Theory by
Lambert Wiesing’, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
2009
Review: ‘On the Seventh Solitude by Rohit Sharma’, The Agonist: 85-88.
‘Nietzsche’s concept of Life’, Dialectic – The York Philosophy Society
Journal 4: 9-12.
2008
Translation: ‘Expression and Immanence’, from the original French by
Miguel De Beistegui. With Marjorie Gracieuse. Pli – The Warwick Journal of
Philosophy 19: 30-54.
2007
‘Nietzsche’s Revaluation of the Platonic Practice of Truth’, in Conference
Proceedings; Nietzsche y la Hermenéutica ed. by Fransico Arenas-Dolz,
Luca Giancristofaro and Paulo Stellino (Nau Libres: Valencia): 423-431.
2004
‘The Role of the Unconscious in Nietzsche and Freud’, Studies in Social and
Political Thought 9: 40-52.
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CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
September
2010
Nietzsche and Naturalism, Cardiff University.
‘Translating Man Back into Nature’.
February
2010
Research Seminar in Post Kantian Philosophy, University of Warwick.
‘The Emancipation of the Spirit; Nietzsche’s Path of Transformation’.
January
2010
Early Career Workshop on Aesthetics and Nietzsche’s The Gay Science
with Lydia Goehr, University of Warwick.
‘Practising Truth in Art’.
August
2009
Society for European Philosophy/Forum for European Philosophy Fifth Joint
Annual Conference, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
‘The Methodology of Nietzsche’s Free Spirit’.
November
2008
Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo, Senate House, London.
‘Ecce Homo as Nietzsche’s ‘Honest Lie’’.
November
2008
North Eastern Political Science Association Fortieth Annual Conference,
Boston.
‘The Path of the Free Spirit: Transformation and the Pathos of Distance’.
August
2008
Society for European Philosophy/Forum for European Philosophy Fourth
Joint Annual Conference, University College Dublin.
‘The Intentionality of the Will to Power’.
July
2008
Roger Scruton’s Aesthetics, The Castle Durham.
‘Representation in Photography’.
June
2008
German Philosophy Since Kant, Graduate Conference, University of
Southampton.
‘Nietzsche’s Concept of Life’.
May
2008
Neue Nietzsche Philologie, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greisfwald.
‘Overcoming the Human and the Practice of Truth’.
November
2007
Nietzsche y la Hermenéutica, University of Valencia.
‘Nietzsche’s Revaluation of the Platonic Practice of Truth’.
September
2007
Society for European Philosophy/Forum for European Philosophy Third
Joint Annual Conference, University Of Sussex.
‘The Will to Truth and the Critique of the Real World’.
TEACHING
Higher Education
September 2010Ongoing
Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
Honours level courses:
Foucault (Module leader)
Nietzsche and Sartre (Seminar leader)
Aesthetics (Contributing lecturer)
My role involves delivering lectures, designing module content, leading
seminar groups, updating the online module resources, marking assessed
essays and setting course reading and assessment questions
KATRINA MITCHESON
October 2009
- June 2010
Lecturer in Ethics, Bath Spa University
Honours level courses:
Ethics, Religion and Humanism: Contemporary Moral Dilemmas
First year core courses:
Truth and Value: Introduction to Philosophical and Ethical Value
In addition to preparing and delivering lectures for these modules my role
involved dissertation supervision, designing module content, leading seminar
groups, updating the online module resources, marking assessed essays
and exams and setting course reading and assessment questions.
October 2006 January 2010
Teaching Assistant, University of Warwick
Being a teaching assistant at Warwick involved leading seminar groups of up
to 15 students, marking essays and logic exercises, and providing written
and oral feedback on student’s work.
Honours level Courses:
Aesthetics I: Kant and Heidegger, Aesthetics II: Aesthetics of
Photography, Post Kantian Philosophy I: Nietzsche and Bergson, Ethics I:
Consequentialist and Kantian Ethics.
First Year Courses:
Descartes and Mill, Applied Ethics, Starting Formal Logic.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
2004, 2005
Bell Young Learners Summer Courses, Bell International.
2003-2004
Language Forum, Courbevoie, Paris.
Teaching Qualifications
November
2009
Post Graduate Award in Introduction to Academic and Professional
Practice, University of Warwick (30 MA Level CATS). This course required
submission of a portfolio demonstrating reflection on higher education
teaching practice in the context of literature and research on learning, and
evidence of implementing plans to improve my own teaching practice,
including participating in peer evaluation.
October
2003
Cambridge Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (Pass
B), St Giles International.
FUNDING
November
2008
American Study and Student Exchange Committee, University of
Warwick, to present a paper at the North Eastern Political Science
Association Fortieth Annual Conference, Boston.
November
2007
Humanities Research Fund, University of Warwick, to present a paper at
Nietzsche y la Hermenéutica, University of Valencia.
August 2005October 2006
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship, for a
research year at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, supervised by Professor
Doctor Volker Gerhardt.
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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2010
Public seminar leader, I led an open workshop on the nature of portraiture
at the National Portrait Gallery as part of Late Shift Extra.
Blog editor, ex officio member of the executive committee of the Friedrich
Nietzsche Society (new blog launch forthcoming).
2009-2010
Editor, Pli – The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Volume 21: ‘Novelty,
Transformation and Change’ (with Caleb Heldt).
2006-2010
Member of the Editorial Board of Pli – The Warwick Journal of Philosophy.
2009-2010
Referee, The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.
2005-2009
Member of the Research Group in Post-Kantian European Philosophy,
University of Warwick.
2004-2008
Member of the Research Seminar in Political Theory, University of
Warwick.
NON-ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE
2006-2009
Residential Tutor, University of Warwick. This was a welfare and
disciplinary role in residential blocks of both postgraduate and
undergraduate students. It involved pastoral care, event organisation and
information dissemination.
2001
Research Assistant and Office Manager, on a voluntary basis for Valerie
Davey, Labour MP. This position involved composing letters to constituents,
managing the MP’s diary and correspondence, researching policy areas and
summarising white papers.
LANGUAGES
French
Fluent reading, competent written and spoken.
German
Competent reading and spoken.