Christine Daigle
After completing her PhD at Université de Montréal in 2001, Christine Daigle began her academic career at Concordia University as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in 2002. In 2003, she joined the Philosophy Department at Brock University in a tenure-track position, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and Full Professor in 2011.
Throughout her tenure, she has taught courses in Continental philosophy, focusing on existentialism, phenomenology, and individual thinkers such as Nietzsche, Sartre, and Beauvoir. Her teaching portfolio also includes environmental philosophy and feminist philosophy. These interests led her to serve as Director of the Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies from 2010 to 2013 and as Director of the PhD program in Interdisciplinary Humanities from 2015 to 2018.
Her international experience includes appointments as an Honorary Research Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia (2013–2021), and as Research Director and Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland (2020–2021). In 2015, she founded the Posthumanism Research Institute at Brock University, where she currently serves as Director.
Her research initially concentrated on existentialism and feminist phenomenology, resulting in extensive publications, including monographs on Nietzsche and Sartre. More recently, her work has expanded to explore material feminism and posthumanism, driven by her interest in the body and vulnerability. She has also made significant contributions to environmental philosophy, designing Brock University’s first course on the subject and conducting research on the Anthropocene, sustainability, extinction, and environmental (post)humanities.
At the heart of her research are fundamental questions: What is the human? How should humans coexist with others? Can we envision a world where all beings thrive rather than merely survive?