BSH Fund Fellow 2025

BSH Fund Fellow 2025

27 November 2024By Samuel FilbyBlog

I am honored to have been awarded the Barbara Stevens Heusel Research Fund for Early-Career Scholars. With this grant, I’ll not only be able to present my work at various universities in the United Kingdom, such as Chichester and Oxford, but will also be able to visit the Murdoch archives at Kingston University. At the archives, I’m hoping to look closely at discussions of imagination and fantasy in Murdoch’s Gifford Lectures, which serve as the basis for Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals.

Obituary: Barbara Stevens Heusel

Obituary: Barbara Stevens Heusel

4 June 2024By Heather RobbinsBlog

Barbara Stevens Heusel, who founded the Iris Murdoch Society in Manhattan in 1986, passed away peacefully on Friday, May 10, 2024, at her home in Tallahassee, Florida. She had lived there since retiring in 2005 as Professor of English Emerita at Northwest Missouri State University and is survived by her husband, Dennis Moore.

BSH Fund Fellow 2024

BSH Fund Fellow 2024

13 November 2023By Jianfeng YUEBlog

I am very honoured to have been awarded the Barbara Stevens Heusel Research Fund for Early-Career Scholars. I currently work as an assistant professor in the School of Foreign Languages, Tongji University, China. I obtained my doctorate from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and I spent 2017-18 at the Iris Murdoch Research Centre under the supervision of Dr Miles Leeson. The title of my PhD dissertation is ‘Transcendence and Disunity: A Study of Iris Murdoch’s Void’.

BSH Fund Fellow 2023 – Camille Braune

BSH Fund Fellow 2023 – Camille Braune

20 October 2022By Camille BrauneBlog

My research is part of the continuity, renewal and improvement of Franco-British studies on Iris Murdoch to date, in a common literary, philosophical, and ethical movement. My thesis intends to propound a new ethics of attention to language as a singular moral project, which Murdoch intuited in her first writings.