Kate Kirkpatrick

Kate Kirkpatrick is a philosopher and Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. Her areas of research cover the fields of philosophy, religion, and culture in the framework of existentialism, especially with her study of Sartre and Beauvoir, and she has taught at King’s College, London, the University of Hertfordshire, and St Peter’s College, Oxford. She is author of Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (2019, Bloomsbury – in Spanish Convertirse en Beauvoir: Una biografia (Paidós, 2020) which, translated into a dozen languages, was selected by Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The Telegraph as one of the best books of 2019. She has also written Wise Sayings of Jesus (Lion Books, 2011), and is coauthor, with George Pattison of The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought: Being, Nothingness, Love (Routledge, 2018), as well as two works about Sartre, namely Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Sartre and Theology (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017). Kirkpatrick has published numerous academic articles, as well as others in media outlets including Aeon, The Guardian, and Lire: Magazine Littéraire. Moreover, she has participated as a speaker in such events as the Cheltenham Literature Festival and HowTheLightGetsIn.