BA(Hons) (Vind), MA (New School)
Hilary Ilkay is a former Faculty Fellow, Senior Fellow in the Humanities, and Associate Director, Academic, for the Foundation Year Program at the University of King’s College. She taught a cross-listed course in the Early Modern Studies, Classics, and Gender and Women’s Studies Departments called The Republic of Women, which discussed the reception of ancient philosophy among women writers and artists in the Early Modern period. She has a BA in Classics, University of King’s College and Dalhousie University, and an MA in Liberal Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies, The New School for Social Research. Her current primary area of interest is the contemporary literary reception of ancient myths and the work of Simone de Beauvoir. Hilary is a Member of the New Voices in the History of Women in Philosophy Group at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, based at Paderborn University. She is the Managing Editor of the Simone de Beauvoir Studies Journal and Assistant Managing editor for the online translation journal, Asymptote. She loves the Early Modern Studies Department and is thrilled to be an Associate Fellow!
