Filipa Melo Lopes

Senior Lecturer

Background

Filipa joined the department in 2019, after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Undergraduate teaching

2025/2026

  • Morality and Values (Y1) - semester 1
  • Gender and Beauty (Y4) - semester 1

 

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

No

Current PhD students supervised

Secondary Supervisor:

  • Rory Wilson - PhD Philosophy
  • Willa Saadat - PhD Philosophy
  • Yinmei Wu, PhD Philosophy
  • Jennifer Walker, PhD Philosophy

Past PhD students supervised

Secondary Supervisor:

Lilith W. Lee - PhD 2021 (currently: Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Primary supervisor:

Ziruo Xie - MSc by Research 2024

Research summary

 

My areas of research are feminist philosophy, social theory, sexual ethics, and the work of Simone de Beauvoir.

 

I am currently the director of the Scottish Feminist Philosophy Network.