College Newnham College

Email efj28@cam.ac.uk

Supervisor Martin Crowley

Research Topic ‘La Philosophie en effet: 50 years of Philosophy, Politics and Publishing’

About

• PhD in French, University of Cambridge, 2023-2026 
• MA in Contemporary Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), 2020-2023
• BA English, Double First Class Honours, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, 2019

Research

Eve is interested in 20th century French thought and intellectual history, and in particular in the heterodox thinking of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Sarah Kofman. In fact, her thesis project investigates the collaborations of this ‘group of four’, focussing especially on the book series they published together at Galilée, namely ‘La Philosophie, en effet’. By extension, her project raises questions about collectives and intellectual community. She is also interested is 20th century queer and feminist thought.

Scholarships/Prizes 

• Newnham College funding for a two week research trip at the Institut mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC), 2024
• Society of European Philosophy Bursary, 2024
• Odette de Mourgues Prize, 2023
• Vice-Chancellor’s Award (for the top 250 PhD applications across Cambridge), 2023
• Cambridge Trust Vice Chancellor’s and Newnham College Scholarship (full PhD funding), 2023-2026
• The Hugo de Balsham Prize for Exceptional Academic Distinction, 2019
• College Prize (Academic), 2018 and 2019
• Senior Scholar at Peterhouse, Cambridge (for academic achievement), 2018 and 1019

Fellowships

• Three month fellowship at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2025
• One year fellowship at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (scholarship from Peterhouse, Cambridge), 2019-2020

Teaching & Outreach

• Critical Theory for MMLL undergraduates, seminars on Russian Formalism, Michel Foucault and Edward Said, 2024-2025
• ‘HE+ Lecture Series’, outreach lecture on Monique Wittig, 2024
• ‘World of Words Residential’, outreach lecture on #metoo in France, 2024
• Newnham Essay Prize programme, seminar teaching, 2024

Conference papers

• ‘Speculating about Women: Freud, Kofman, Derrida’, Rethinking the Sexed Body, UCM, October 2024
• ‘The Mimesis Project: How politics and publishing have shaped French philosophy’ Society for European Philosophy (Cardiff), June 2024
• ‘The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters’: Hybrids and Doubles in Kofman’s Hoffmann, Critical Theory and Reason, UCM, March 2024
• 'La Philosophie, en effet': Publishing French Thought 1970-2021, Cambridge French Graduate Research Seminar, November 2023
• ‘Tragedy and Tragic Theory: Maurice Blanchot and Sarah Kofman in Correspondence’, Philosophy and Literature in Dialogue, Zagreb Institute of Philosophy, December 2022
• ‘Maternal Bodies of Water: Alternative Geographies in European Philosophy’, Society for European Philosophy (Newcastle), August 2022
• ‘The Symbolic Language of Process Ontology’, Philosophy Across Borders, UCM, June 2022
•  ‘Reason and Style: The Deconstructionist Tradition of Paradox’, The Limits of Reason, UCM, June 2022
•  ‘From Outside the Estate: The Symbolic Language of Canon Formation’, Utrecht Graduate Conference, May 2022
• ‘The Ripple and the Two-Tide Movement: The Metaphorical Language of Contingent Foundations’, Decolonization and Poststructuralism, Febuary 2022
• ‘Samuel Beckett and Laughter’, Responses to the Non-Human Turn: Cambridge Graduate Conference, May 2019
• ‘Sarah Kofman's Laughter’, CUJS, June 2019

Other activities and roles

• Project Member of “The Politics of Reason” (POLSON), a four year research project funded by the Spanish government at UCM from 2021-2025, 2024-2025
• Co-convenor of the Cambridge French Graduate Research Seminar (FGRS), 2024-2025
• Society of European Philosophy Executive Committee (Communications Officer), 2024 onwards
• Co-founder and chair of the ‘La Philosophie, en effet’ monthly online seminar, 2023 onwards (please reach out if you’d like to get involved)