• Phenomenology
• Existentialism
• Kierkegaard
• Jan Patočka
• Stanley Cavell
• Philosophical Poetics
• Feminist Philosophy
• Aesthetics
• Philosophy of Religion
• Environmental Ethics

Erin welcomes enquiries from research students interested in working in any of these areas. 

Erin Plunkett is senior lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Hertfordshire and joined the faculty in 2018. She is the editor of Kierkegaard and Possibility (2023) and editor, along with Ivan Chvatík, of The Selected Writings of Jan Patočka: Care for the Soul (2022), an anthology of the Czech philosopher's essays on phenomenology, the arts, and his philosophy of history. 

She is currently working on questions around anxiety and possibility, drawing from Kierkegaard and Patočka.

Erin’s book A Philosophy of the Essay: Scepticism, Experience, and Style (Bloomsbury, 2018) along with contributions to edited volumes in essay studies including The Ediburgh Companion to the Essay (2022), and The Cambridge History of the British Essay (forthcoming) attest to her interest in formal textual questions as matters of philosophical concern. 

Particular research interests are phenomenology, post-Kantian philosophy, Patočka, Kierkegaard and existentialism. Reasearch topics include possibility, anxiety, despair, beginnings, world (in phenomenology), receptivity, communication, and freedom. Other areas of interest include: European Romanticisms, philosophy of religion, feminist philosophy, and philosophical approaches to literature.