Claire French
MA Student
| Degrees: | BA (Carleton) |
Research Topic
Relational Remembering as Epistemic Justice
Supervisor
Christine Koggel
Research Interests
- The Epistemic Status of Emotions
- Feminist Relational Theory
- Hermeneutics
- Relational Remembering
- Latin Medieval Political Philosophy
- Evanescence in Japanese Aesthetic Philosophy
- The Politics of Translation
Biography
Born and raised in BC’s South Coast region, Claire French moved to Ottawa to attend Carleton’s College of the Humanities. She decided to take a second major in philosophy after attending the first lecture of the humanities core course HUMS 2000 – Reason and Revelation. During her time as a humanities student, she studied German, conducted a summer research internship on the intellectual lineage of Dante’s political philosophy, and became a passionate student of feminist relational philosophy. Being completely unable to separate her personal interests from her academic ones, Claire has also developed an interest in aesthetic philosophy and the politics of translation. She is also something of an evangelist for work of the late Sue Campbell, whose writing on emotions and memory have informed the bulk of her thesis.