I work at the intersection of academic philosophy and the creative arts

• I'm a writer, and I work as a professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia which is built on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, stolen territory of the Musqueam First Nation.

• Here is a summary CV. I have a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, and have held academic posts at the University of St Andrews, the Australian National University, the University of Michigan, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Aberdeen. I also have an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. For more information, see my full academic CV.

• I’m grew up in Wales. Wales is not in England!

Recent honours

• My novel Victoria Sees It was shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Frye Academy Award

• I was a selected poet for Art Song Lab 2020 and 2022

• I was a UBC Wall Scholar 2020-21

• My poem “Blue” was the commissioned Festival Poem for the Words on the Water Writers’ Festival 2019

• My short story “The Woman at Home” won the New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXI

• My poem “hymns to the word” was a finalist for the 2019 Indiana Review 1/2K Prize

• My poem “Fourteen” was a finalist for the 2018 Malahat Review Far Horizons Poetry Award

• I won one of the 2016 American Philosophical Association Public Philosophy Op Ed Contest awards

• I held a tier II (ten-year) Canada Research Chair at UBC from 2011 to 2021

• I was PI on a SSHRC Insight Grant award from 2016-2019

My work appears in and/or has been covered by …

• Vox Conversations

• CTV

• Hazlitt

• Scientific American

• Readers Digest

• The Puritan

• The Telegraph

• New Statesman

• TIME

• The New York Times

• La Vanguardia

• TED

• NPR

• El País

• Vox

• The Atlantic

• CBC The Current

• Business Insider

• Newsweek

• Elle

• The Globe and Mail

• The Chronicle of Higher Education

• Jezebel

• Autostraddle

• The Cut

• ABC Nightline