The 133rd London Session

Upcoming Talk

6 February 2012 | 16.15 - 18.00

Fiction as a Genre

Stacie Friend

Heythrop College

The Woburn Suite
Senate House
University of London

Chaired by Marie McGinn (UEA)
President of the Aristotelian Society - 2011/12

Admission Free & Open to All

Stacie Friend is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, where she has been teaching since 2007. Her research is at the intersection of aesthetics and philosophy of language and mind, focusing primarily on issues relating to fiction. She has published papers on the nature of fiction, discourse and thought about the non-existent, the metaphysics of fictional characters, emotional responses to fiction and tragedy and the cognitive values of literature. She is currently working on a monograph, Matters of Fiction.

Before coming to Heythrop, Dr Friend taught at Birkbeck College (2005-7) and at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania (2003-05). She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2002-03. She received her BA in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Miami, Florida (1995) and her PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University (2002).

Dr Friend is the Secretary of the British Society of Aesthetics, as well as an organiser of the London Aesthetics Forum series of talks at the Institute of Philosophy in London.

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20 February 2012 | 16.15 - 18.00

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Heather Logue

University of Leeds

The Woburn Suite
Senate House
University of London