Dr Ellisif Wasmuth

Biography

Ellisif is a lecturer in Philosophy specialising in Ancient Philosophy and Environmental Philosophy. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2016 with a dissertation on self-knowledge in the Platonic dialogue Alcibiades I. Before her PhD, she studied philosophy, mathematics and physics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), before moving to London to do an MPhilSt in Philosophy at Kings College London (KCL). She has been a visiting student at Fudan University, Shanghai and a visiting scholar at New York University (NYU). She worked as a Stipendiary Lecturer at St Johns College, Oxford before joining the University of Essex in 2017. Her work in Ancient Philosophy has centered around selfhood, self-knowledge and the soul as well as ethics and political obligation, with a particular focus on Plato. She also works on philosophical method, language and the relationship between epistemology, ethics and metaphysics in ancient philosophy. Her interests in Environmental Philosophy fall largely within political philosophy, with her current research project looking at conceptions of nature and environmentalism within far-right discourses. She also has interests within animal ethics, protest ethics and collapse ethics. She is currently co-director of the University's Centre for Environment and Society (CES: https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/environment-and-society) where she convenes an interdisciplinary speaker series. She is happy to hear from any student wishing to work within ancient or environmental philosophy.

Qualifications

• PhD University of Cambridge,

• MPhilSt King's College London,

• BA Norwegian University of Science and Technology,

Appointments

University of Essex

• Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies (PHAIS), University of Essex (1/9/2017 - present)

Other academic

• Stipendiary Lecturer, St John's College, University of Oxford (1/8/2016 - 31/8/2017)