Rate My Professor Felicity Joseph

Joseph's academic interests span Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Feminist Philosophy, Political Theory, Gender Studies, History of Philosophy, Embodiment, Philosophy Pedagogy, and the relationship between Analytic and Continental Philosophy. She employs phenomenological and existential methods to address contemporary issues, including political philosophy through feminist perspectives and interdisciplinary topics such as parenthood and motherhood. Key publications include co-editing The Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism (Bloomsbury, 2014) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism, second edition (Bloomsbury, 2024), both with Jack Reynolds and Ashley Woodward; 'The Degendering of Virtue: Beauvoir and Wollstonecraft on Virtue and Equality' in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (2024); 'Green fields, ugly ducklings and black swans: aesthetic dimensions of ecological science' in People and Nature (2025, co-authored); 'What is ‘heteropessimism’ and why do men and women suffer from it?' in The Conversation (2022, co-authored); and 'Simone de Beauvoir on Female Embodiment' in Philosophy Now (2008). She coordinates units including HASS101 Controversies: Foundations of Critical Social Analysis, PAIS101 Introduction to Politics, PHIL306/506 European Philosophy: The 19th Century, PHIL307/507 European Philosophy: The 20th and 21st Centuries, and PHIL308/508 Friendship, Love and Sex, and co-teaches SOCY120 Introduction to Theory of Gender.