We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Matthew Charles as Lecturer in Philosophy for 2010-11.

Matthew has been teaching part-time in the Philosophy Department at Middlesex for several years, as well as on the ‘Capitalism and Culture’ course at the University of Westminster.

He completed his PhD, entitled ‘Speculative Experience and History: Walter Benjamin’s Goethean Kantianism’, at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex in 2009. His research is concerned with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, in particular with the philosophy of Walter Benjamin. He is the co-author of the forthcoming entry on Walter Benjamin for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and is a member of the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy.