Miss Merve Arslan
| Post: | Doctoral Tutor (Philosophy) |
| Email: | ma843@sussex.ac.uk |
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Biography
Merve graduated from the Department of Philosophy with honor degree at Adnan Menderes University in Turkey, in 2010. Her graduation thesis was about ‘Citizenship Theory of Kant’. After graduation, she worked as a teacher for a while. In 2014, she applied and won the scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of National Education.
Between 2016-2017, she studied her MA project at the University of Sussex on ‘Woman’s Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’ which was supervised by Tanja Staehler. After receiving her MA degree, she completed her PhD project. Her research focused on the role of unspecified bodies for the future of gender.
Merve is interested in Feminist Philosophy, 20th century French Philosophy, Body Theories and Phenomenology, Gender Philosophy, Gender and Power Relations, Otherness and its social implications, Disability, and recently Roman Philosophy through ancient Latin texts.
Role
Doctoral Tutor