I’m a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Sofia University, working in feminist philosophy, especially corporeal feminism and feminist new materialism, with a particular interest in morphology, matter and the maternal. My research focuses on hybrid figures such as selkies, shapeshifters and monstrous mothers, which I approach, through literature, as forms. My dissertation reads Luce Irigaray with and against herself, arguing that the feminine imaginary is a mediation not yet made, and that the hybrid figures of women’s speculative fiction are what the feminine looks like when no symbolic order can receive it. Alongside Irigaray, I currently work w…
I’m a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Sofia University, working in feminist philosophy, especially corporeal feminism and feminist new materialism, with a particular interest in morphology, matter and the maternal. My research focuses on hybrid figures such as selkies, shapeshifters and monstrous mothers, which I approach, through literature, as forms. My dissertation reads Luce Irigaray with and against herself, arguing that the feminine imaginary is a mediation not yet made, and that the hybrid figures of women’s speculative fiction are what the feminine looks like when no symbolic order can receive it. Alongside Irigaray, I currently work with Lacan on the psychoanalytic side, and with Grosz, Barad, Alaimo, Tuana, Haraway, and Serres. My next project stays with hybrid figures. They show no sign of settling into one form, which is what keeps them so engaging.
