Dr Undine Sellbach
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
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Biography
Undine is a philosopher, artist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee. Her research brings together philosophy, ethology, psychoanalysis, feminism and performance to rethink the entanglements of a more-than-human world.
She has a PhD in Philosophy from the Australian National University called "Illustrated Nonsense" on the ethical and imaginative dimensions of Wittgenstein's thought. Since then she has taught Philosophy both inside and outside the discipline, including working with students in Art, Architecture and Performance, the Humanities and the Medical and Life Sciences. She is co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (2018) and is currently completing a book on the speculative ethologies of the biologist Jakob von Uexküll.
Alongside her academic writing, she makes philosophy performance works and is the author of the children’s book The Floating Islands (2006). Her creative work has been presented at international festivals and events such as The Edinburgh International Book Festival (2007); The Peacock Theatre & Kelly's Garden (2012); Theatre, Performance, Philosophy (Sorbonne, 2014); The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2015) and Liquid Architecture's Why Listen to Animals? (2016) and is documented at undinefrancescasellbach.blogspot.com.
Research
Undine's current major research interests are:
- Performance Philosophy
- Philosophy of Science
- New Materialisms
- Environmental Humanities and Posthumanities
- Animal Studies
- Feminist Philosophy
She would welcome PhD proposals in these areas.
She is a member of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy.
AHRC funded studentships are available in these research areas.
Teaching
Undergraduate modules
Philosophy, Science, Imagination
Feminist Philosophies & Queer Theories
Introduction to Scientific Methods and Creativity
Postgraduate modules
Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities