Dr. Alex Thinius
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The Reconceptualization of Sexual Difference
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Who is Alex?
Alex Thinius is a philosopher, interdisciplinary socio-cultural researcher, and educator. Working to better understand the materiality of socio-cultural change, their specialization are conceptions of sex-gender. They are currently researching “The Reconceptualization of Sexual Difference”, for which they have collaborated with the GenderSci Lab at Harvard University. Alex completed a PhD titled Genders as Genres at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. They have since been teaching at Universiteit van Amsterdam in the departments of Literary and Cultural Analysis and in Philosophy.
Alex’s long-term research theorizes the materiality of cultural and social change. This research explores the cases of aesthetic genres and of gender as starting points for a more general approach. It bridges methods in critical phenomenology, aesthetics, and complex systems theory.
Alex holds a Research MA in Philosophy from RU Nijmegen and studied music at ArtEZ conservatory. They have a Bachelor majoring in Philosophy and in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Münster University, where they are associated with the Center for Philosophy of Science.
Together with Rose Trappes, they convene the DEFPoS Reading Group on feminist philosophy of science.
What did Alex do so far, in academia?
Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, via Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
(2023)
I conducted the first phase of my research project “The Reconceptualization of Sexual Difference”, and collaborated on the research of the GenderSci Lab.
Lecturer at Universiteit van Amsterdam
(2021 – 2022)
As Lecturer in Literary & Cultural Analysis and in Philosophy, I taught and designed BA and MA courses. More on teaching…
PhD Researcher at Universiteit van Amsterdam
(2016 – 2021)
I completed my PhD research project, “What does it mean to be of a particular gender?”. More…
Visiting PhD Student at MIT
(Fall – 2019)
Visiting PhD Student at Sheffield University
(Fall 2018)
Lecturer in Philosophy at Bochum University
(Summer 2018)
Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and in Political Science at Münster University
(Summer 2016)
Student Assistant at Center for Philosophy of Science, Münster University
(2011 – 2012)
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