Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin

Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London’s Department of Theology & Religious Studies, within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Her work bridges philosophy, theology, and art, focusing on non-discursive meaning in art and its implications for human experience and reconciliation. She previously held roles such as Teaching Fellow in Religion, Philosophy and the Arts (2016–2017) and adjunct faculty at the Toronto School of Theology. Dengerink Chaplin is also founding director of the exhibition Art, Conflict and Remembering: the murals of the Bogside Artists, promoting understanding of Northern Ireland’s Troubles through art.

• Education: Philosophy, art history, and musicology from Amsterdam.

Her research interests include philosophical and theological aesthetics, art’s role in peacebuilding, and embodied cognition. She has written extensively on figures like Kant, Cassirer, and Merleau-Ponty, exploring intersections of analytic and continental philosophy. Her major publication, The Philosophy of Susanne Langer (2019), examines embodied meaning across logic, art, and feeling.

Public engagement includes collaborations with faith-based arts organizations and panel discussions integrating art, academia, and activism. Her work emphasizes socially engaged art as a tool for reconciliation and critical dialogue.