Dr. Evelien Geerts (she/they) is an interdisciplinary philosopher (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, the United States) and critical pedagogue with a passion for inclusivity and critical thinking skills-enhancing teaching & co-learning. Geerts is currently a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Gender, Women's Studies & Philosophy at University College Cork (Ireland), where they are also the Women's Studies MA & PhD Program Director.

Before joining UCC, Geerts was a Research Fellow (part of the ERC-funded Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-19): Remembering, Imagining, and Anticipating Violence project) at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). They are currently a Posthumanities Hub & Eco- and Bioart Lab Affiliated Researcher (Linköping University (Sweden)) and Posthumanism Research Institute (Brock University (Canada)) Associate. 

Geerts' research focuses on political philosophical questions of identity, difference, violence, democracy, and justice-to-come; environmental philosophical questions surrounding the (post-)Anthropocene and contemporary times of polycrisis; hauntology as a queer/ing & critical (new)materialist methodology; and critical and diffractive pedagogies - and that all through critical posthumanist, new materialist, and Deleuzoguattarian perspectives.

Their work has been published in CounterText, Philosophy Today, Women's Studies International Forum, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, amongst others, and two monograph projects are currently in development: a project that investigates the implications of reconceptualizing violence as a complex agential realist phenomenon (including a detailed glossary of agential realism) and one combining political philosophy, the Environmental Posthumanities, and (digital) cultural studies that examines the micropolitical power of alt-right memes.

In addition to possessing plenty of project managerial expertise (organizer of summer schools, such as the Kif Kif Gender & Superdiversity summer school; expert seminars; workshops; ...) and editorial skills (editorial board member & editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications; former editorial board member & editor of Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (2015-2020); (co-)editor of several special journal issues of Somatechnics, Journal of Digital Social Research, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, and Matter; ...), Geerts is also committed to critical pedagogies-based teaching and the much-needed praxis of public philosophy.

For more information, download Geerts' academic curriculum (August 2025) or check out their Linktree page for an overview of recent publications & presentations.

• AOS:
  • 20th & 21st century (Continental European) political philosophy and critical theory (and particularly the oeuvres of the Frankfurter Schule, de Beauvoir, Arendt, Levinas, Foucault, Irigaray, Deleuze & Guattari, Derrida, Butler, Braidotti, Haraway, and Barad);
  • Feminist philosophy (with a focus on critical epistemologies of difference and resistance);
  • Intersections of political, feminist & environmental philosophy (with an emphasis on the Environmental Posthumanities, Deleuzoguattarian, critical new materialist & posthumanist approaches, and feminist STS);
  • Critical theory (including queer theoretical, affect theoretical, critical disability studies, critical race/ethnicity studies perspectives & their junctures);
  • (Digital) cultural & media studies.

• AOC:
  • Critical pedagogies, (digital) critical literacy & PBL strategies;
  • Critical violence, terrorism & security studies.

• Specific research topics: (post-)pandemic violence & extremism, the more-than-human & ecofeminisms, digital meme culture, the philosophy and micropolitics of memes, global alt-right & (neo-)fascist politics, philosophical theorizing in polycrisis times, historical & (new) materialist conceptualizations of hope, the hauntological & hauntology as a critical (new) materialist methodology, philosophical conceptualizations of identity and identity politics, and intersectionality & interference.

In addition to coordinating and designing the curriculum of the Women's Studies MA program (including the interdisciplinary College-wide PG7044 module for PhD students that focuses on intersectional and interdisciplinary research perspectives and methodologies), Geerts teaches the following courses at UCC:

• Feminist Theory (WS6002), Women's Studies MA;
• Feminist Philosophy (PH2017), Philosophy BA (2nd year);
• Violence & the Environmental Posthumanities (PH3050), Philosophy BA (3rd year).

Geerts also contributes to the following modules at UCC:

• Gender and Society I: Contexts (WS6003);
• Gender and Society II: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (WS6005);
• Research Skills Part I: Feminist Methodologies (WS6007);
• Researching Through Gendered & Intersectional Lenses: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (PG7044);
• Empowering Educators: Feminist Research in Educational Practice (ED6081).

Geerts also guest lectures and contributes to various Irish and international programs, summer schools, and study groups, including guest lectures and keynotes for Brock University's Philosophy Department, the 2025 European Intersectional Humanities Summer School at Maynooth University, and the OZSW Study Group COMET – Metaphysics in Contemporary Continental Philosophy keynote, Radboud University, to name a few.