Emilia Angelova

Emilia Angelova is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University. She specializes in 20th and 19th Century Continental Philosophy, with a focus on Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy, and French Feminist theory in relation to Hegel and Kant. She also serves as adjunct faculty in the PhD program in Cultural Studies at Trent University, Canada.

• Education: BA and MA in Philosophy from Sofia University (Bulgaria), MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto.

Her research explores themes such as selfhood, temporality, freedom, affect, gender and sexuality, and the imagination. She has published on intersections between Continental Philosophy and feminist theory, notably in The Philosophy of Julia Kristeva (2020) and other journals.

Her recent publications span topics like Hegelian metaphysics, Deleuzian ontology, Heideggerian temporality, and Derridean deconstruction, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement with philosophy, feminist theory, and existential phenomenology.

She is currently editing a forthcoming anthology Hegel, Freedom, and History and completing a book on the experience of freedom in Heidegger, Kant, and Nancy. She contributes to academic governance as a member of the Book Selection Advisory Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.