Celia Coll

Contact

• workRoom C03
  King's Meadow Campus
  Lenton Lane
  Nottingham
  NG7 2NR
  UK
• Celia.Coll@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I have been working at the University of Nottingham since August 2024. First, as a research assistant in meta-aesthetics and now as a teaching associate. Prior to my time in Nottingham, I taught at the University of Hertfordshire and at the University of York. I have an MA and MLitt from the University of St Andrews, both in Philosophy. I completed my PhD on the Philosophy of Literature at the University of York in 2022.

Expertise Summary

My main area of expertise is the Philosophy of Literature. I am especially interested in questions about the nature of literary value (especially its intersection with moral and epistemic value) and about the methodologies we employ to answer these questions. I am currently thinking about how the case-studies commonly used in accounting for the value of literature impact upon our understanding of this value. In addition to this, I am interested in meta-questions (especially methodological) in the field of aesthetics overall, the semantics of fiction, and, given my experience teaching moral and political philosophy, in the intersection between the question of freedom of speech and our conception of literary and artistic value.

Research Summary

I am currently collaborating on a project mapping out the field of meta-aesthetics. In addition to this, I am working on questions about the methodologies we employ in the field of aesthetics, with a… read more

Current Research

I am currently collaborating on a project mapping out the field of meta-aesthetics. In addition to this, I am working on questions about the methodologies we employ in the field of aesthetics, with a particular focus on the case-studies aestheticians use to theorise about art. I am also currently interested in fiction and the ways we talk about fictional and historical characters as they arise in ficitonal, literary-critical, and other conversational contexts.