Eve Judah

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Newnham College
  • PhD student

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

Supervisor Martin Crowley

  • 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

Conference papers

  • ‘Antelme’s Afterlives: Thinking Community after Auschwitz’, Le Groupe de la rue Saint-Benoît Journée d’étude, ULIP, January 2026
  • ‘All Together Now: Philosophy and Collective Action in Post-68 France’, Society for European Philosophy, King’s College London, July 2025
  • ‘De la philosophie, en effet. Mais de la politique?’, Society for French Studies Annual Conference, University of Bristol, June-July 2025
  • ‘“La Philosophie en effet’: An Exchange of Letters (Derrida-Nancy)’, Oxford French Graduate Seminar, All Souls College Oxford, June 2025 
  • ‘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

     Conference Organisation

  • Co-organised ‘Witnessing the World Otherwise: Testimony Community, and the (Post-)Human’ July 2026

  • Generously supported by the Maison Française d’Oxford, the Society for French Studies, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and the Oxford Center for Research into the Humanities 

    Seminars

  • Co-convenor of the Cambridge French Graduate Research Seminar (FGRS)       2024 – 2025

  • Co-founder and co-convenor of the ‘La Philosophie en effet’ reading group (monthly, online) 2023 – 2026

    Committee Memberships 

  • Board Member of the Collège scientifique éditorial Kofman 2026 – ongoing
  • Society of European Philosophy Communications Officer & Mentorship Programme  2024 – ongoing

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. 

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 2019

Fellowships

  • Non-Degree Visiting Studentship at the University of Chicago Divinity School, September 2025-March 2026
  • Studentship at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2025
  • Studentship at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (scholarship from Peterhouse, Cambridge), 2019-2020

Teaching and supervision

Teaching & Outreach

  • ‘Arendt, Strauss, Levinas: The Philosopher as Public Thinker’, University of Chicago, Teaching Assistant to Michael Lipkin, 2025-2026
  • ‘Introduction to Philosophy’, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 4 hours of visiting lectures, 2025
  • ‘CHAS 2025’, designed and delivered a 6 session course called ‘French History Through Female Eyes’, 2025
  • 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