Katia Hay

Katia Hay, born 1981, studied philosophy and literature in Madrid (Complutense), Munich (LMU), Paris (Sorbonne Paris-IV) and London (Open University). She obtained a DEA in Histoire de la Philosophie in Paris on »Deleuze, time and dance« in 2004. In 2008 she obtained a double PhD (cotutelle between Munich and Paris) in philosophy on »Schelling and the tragic«. Since then she has worked mostly on Nietzsche, humour, laughter and language with a 6-year FCT research grant at the University of Lisbon. Katia Hay has taught philosophy at university level in Lisbon, Freiburg, New York, Santiago de Chile and Leiden. Since January 2016 she is a post-doc researcher at Leiden University, at the Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) with the topic: »The Power of Images: Rethinking Censorship in the Global Media«.

She is author of »Die Notwendigkeit des Scheiterns. Das Tragische als Bestimmung der Philosophie bei Schelling« (Alber-Verlag: Beiträge zur Schelling-Forschung 2, 2012 ) and has published many articles on Schelling and Nietzsche. She has recently edited a volume by De Gruyter on »Nietzsche, German Idealism and its Critics«.