Tristan Ayran
MA Student
- BA (University of Regina), (BASc) University of Regina
Research Topic
The politics of playful reading
Research Interests
Philosophy of literature
Political philosophy
Virtue ethics and friendship
Biography
Tristan completed his Bachelor of Arts Honours in Philosophy with a Minor in English at the University of Regina. Before moving on to philosophy, he finished a Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Industrial Engineering at the same institution. He is interested in Aristotelian thought, political philosophy, and the intersections of philosophy and literature. His research concerns how certain attitudes we espouse in reading can make the activity more rewarding towards living a good life and participating well in democracy. Some of his favorite ‘philosophers’ are Marcel Proust, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, and Elizabeth Gaskell; he strongly believes everyone should read Middlemarch or North and South at least one in their life, if not multiple times over the course of it.