Christopher Watkin

I am an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor of European Languages (French Studies)Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. I have authored a number of books in modern and contemporary thought, including Phenomenology or Deconstruction? (2009), Difficult Atheism (2011), French Philosophy Today: New Figures of the Human (2016) and Michel Serres: Figures of Thought (2020). I also write books about the relationship between theology, philosophy and culture, including Biblical Critical Theory (2022), Thinking Through Creation (2017), Jacques Derrida (2017), Michel Foucault (2018) and Gilles Deleuze (2020).

I am currently chief investigator for a project entitled "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". The project's home page is https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/social-contract-research-network, and its YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq7geWYdmGE3kIcJrw8Ebsw.

My personal website is christopherwatkin.com, and you can find some of my academic talks at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjhGOouhxdPo0XkspFSs2Dw

I edit the Crosscurrents monograph series for Edinburgh University Press, exploring the development of European thought through engagements with the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences. See http://www.euppublishing.com/series/cross

You can find me on Twitter @DrChrisWatkin.