Marina Ogden
University of Glasgow
Dr. Marina G. Ogden is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge (IOCS) and an Affiliated Researcher in Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow. The subject of both her MRes dissertation, completed at the Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London and her PhD thesis, undertaken at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Glasgow, was the philosophy of the religious existentialist thinker Lev Shestov. Since completing her PhD (2020), she has conducted Postdoctoral Research at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow (2021–2025) and as Visiting Fellow at The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London (2022–2025). She is a member of the Lev Shestov Studies Society UK and Guest Editor of the forthcoming Issue of The Lev Shestov Journal [Cahiers Léon Chestov]. The area of her interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of the philosophy of art, the philosophy of culture, religious studies, psychoanalysis, and art theory. She has a particular interest in Lev Shestov and Russian Religious Thought, Aby Warburg, Wassily Kandinsky and the twentieth-century philosophy of art and culture, continental philosophy, and the apophatic themes of unsaying and unknowing in Modern European Thought. Marina G. Ogden has presented her research in public talks, seminars and lectures, and has given interviews about her work. She has published articles in a number of academic journals, including Studies in East European Thought, The Journal of European Studies, The European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, and The Lev Shestov Journal. Her first critically-acclaimed book, Lev Shestov’s Angel of Death: Memory, Trauma and Rebirth was published in 2021 by Peter Lang. Her second monograph, Warburg, Kandinsky, and Shestov on Renewal of Art and Humanity: Artistic, Philosophical, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2025/2026.