ABOUT WILLOW
Willow Verkerk is an engaging and thoughtful feminist intellectual. She has taught in the London area as a Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy at CRMEP, Kingston University and as an Associate Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Mary's University. In Paris she has taught as a Visiting Faculty Member at the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. She has also lectured in Canada at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, Concordia University, and in Belgium at the KU Leuven where she obtained her PhD.
Willow is a passionate teacher who works within and outside of the academy to change the legacy of philosophical thinking. She specialises in modern and contemporary European philosophy with an expertise in feminist critique. Her recent talks have concentrated on the topics of identity, intellectual and cultural legacy, friendship, resistance, and the practice of changing values.
In addition to her academic pursuits, Willow is working on two popular book projects, Talking with Women and On Femininity and Its Falsehoods.
Appointments
Teaching and Writing Interests
The Philosophy of Love and Friendship
From antiquity to present day, in the history of ideas and in popular culture
2017-2018
Philosophy Department, St. Mary's University
Associate Lecturer in Philosophy
Gender Identity
In philosophy, queer theory, feminism, transgender theory, psychoanalysis, and popular culture
19th and 20th century European Philosophy
Especially Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Adorno, Bataille, Merleau-Ponty, Fanon, Foucault, Derrida, Beauvoir, and Irigaray
2018- 2019
Paris Institute for Critical Thinking
Visiting Faculty Member
2016-2017
Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University
Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy
Activism and Resistance
Theoretical and practical ideas from feminist, Marxist, and anarchist thinking, and from everyday life
2019- present
University of British Columbia
Philosophy Instructor