Kurt Borg

I am a Lecturer in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Malta. I completed a PhD in Philosophy at Staffordshire University, with a thesis on the ethics and politics of narrating trauma in medical and legal institutional contexts, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. I graduated with a BA (Hons) and an MA in Philosophy at the University of Malta, the latter with a dissertation on the relation between Foucault's ideas on power and ethics.

My research interests revolve around the interface between ethics and politics. I am interested in the history of ethics (especially ancient ethics) and ethical theory (ethics of care, vulnerability, relationality, embodiment and affect), as well as applied ethics and ethics education. I have a strong interest in Foucault's work, particularly his ideas on discourse, power relations, subjectivity and ethics. I draw on these ideas in my work on power relations in the context of education, psychology, medicine and disability studies. I am also interested in the philosophy of education, both its history and current debates in educational theory.

My main area of specialisation is contemporary continental philosophy (particularly Foucault and Butler). However, I adopt an interdisciplinary outlook that brings philosophy in dialogue with the social sciences. Towards this aim, I use philosophical inquiry in relation to approaches such as discourse and narrative analysis to study critical issues in education and narratives of illness, disability and trauma.