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Research interests
- 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.
Overview
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.
Education/Academic qualification
Philosophy, PhD, Coming to Terms: Scepticism and the Philosophical Essay, HEI: Royal Holloway, University of London
1 Oct 2011 → 3 Mar 2016
Award Date: 3 Mar 2016
Religious Studies, MA, The Romantic Influence in Kierkegaard’s ‘Concept of Irony’, Indiana University (IU)
30 Aug 2004 → 1 May 2008
Award Date: 1 May 2012
Comparative Literature, MA, The Romantic Influence in Kierkegaard’s ‘Concept of Irony’, Indiana University (IU)
30 Aug 2004 → 1 May 2008
Award Date: 1 May 2012
Comparative Literature, BA, ‘Me, Krapp’: Existential Identity in Krapp’s Last Tape, Indiana University (IU)
30 Aug 1999 → 31 May 2003
Award Date: 31 May 2003
External positions
External Examiner, University of Western England
8 Aug 2022 → 9 Aug 2026
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Projects
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Jan Patočka: Care for the Soul
Plunkett, E. (PI), Zucker, A. (CoI) & Chvatik, I. (Researcher)
1/01/19 → 31/01/22
Project: Research
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Patočka on bare life and political life in the time of the pandemic
Plunkett, E., 21 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Central Europe. 23, p. 1-15 15 p., 2463761.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Plain English: Essays and Analytic Philosophy
Plunkett, E., 1 Oct 2024, THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ESSAY. Gigante, D. & Childs, J. (eds.). Cambridge,UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 421-436 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Existence and Possibility
Plunkett, E., 24 Aug 2023, Kierkegaard and Possibility. Plunkett, E. (ed.). 1st ed. Bloomsbury Academic, 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Kierkegaard and Possibility
Plunkett, E. (Editor), 24 Aug 2023, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 242 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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The Thing of the Essay
Plunkett, E., 31 Oct 2022, The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay. Aquilina, M., Cowser, B. & Wallack, N. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, p. 68-81 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review