Doing a Tarot reading for the future of academia
I work at the intersection of creative writing and academic philosophy
I'm a writer and a professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. UBC is on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, stolen territory of the Musqueam First Nation.
Here is a summary CV. I have a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, and have held academic posts at the University of St Andrews, the Australian National University, the University of Michigan, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Aberdeen. I also have an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. For more information, see my full academic CV.
I grew up in Wales. Also, Wales is not in England!
Recent honours
My novel Victoria Sees It was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Frye Academy Award
I was a selected poet for Art Song Lab 2020 and 2022
I was a UBC Wall Scholar 2020-21
My poem “Blue” was the commissioned Festival Poem for the Words on the Water Writers’ Festival 2019
My short story “The Woman at Home” won the New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXI
My poem “hymns to the word” was a finalist for the 2019 Indiana Review 1/2K Prize
My poem “Fourteen” was a finalist for the 2018 Malahat Review Far Horizons Poetry Award
I won one of the 2016 American Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Op Ed Contest awards
I held a tier II (ten-year) Canada Research Chair at UBC from 2011 to 2021
I was PI on a SSHRC Insight Grant award from 2016-2019