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Marge Simpson
Bio
Academic c.v. (pdf)
I was born in London and spent my childhood in Kent and then Surrey. I graduated from Oxford University with a BA in philosophy and theology 1999 and from Cambridge with an MPhil in philosophy in 2001. I came to America in the fall of that year as a Jane Elizer Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. My original plan had been to return to Cambridge for a PhD, but I changed my mind and instead went to the University of Notre Dame where I am currently teaching and finishing my dissertation.
Between graduating from Oxford and starting my graduate work at Cambridge I spent a year teaching Religious Studies at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford. Between 2001 and 2006 I also taught courses on the history of scientific revolutions (2001-2003) and Western Civilization (2004-2006) in a summer program for talented high school students at Cambridge University.
I have been performing stand-up comedy since my freshman year at Oxford. At Cambridge I wrote and performed stand-up and sketch comedy for the Footlights, and in 2001 I was named director of the Footlights Spring Revue. I performed frequently at Princeton during my time there and created what became the first stand-up comedy club in the university's history. At Notre Dame I have performed in student-run and professional shows, opening for a number of major comedians, including Mike Birbiglia and Todd Barry.
I have also done some non-academic writing on a variety of topics, selections of which can be found in the Other Writing section of this site.