Rate My Professor Felicity Joseph

Dr Felicity Joseph is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Political Theory in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education at the University of New England. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, with her 2006 thesis titled 'Phenomenologies of the Lived Body: Husserl, Stein, Merleau-Ponty and Marcel on Embodiment' supervised by Marion Tapper, and a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours from the Australian National University. Her career includes casual lecturing at the University of Melbourne from 2004 to 2010, Swinburne University, and RMIT University. At UNE, as part of the teaching-focused cohort, she has collaborated with the University of the Third Age and contributed to training for the Gender Equity in Agricultural Research for Development program.

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.