Dr Eleanor Curran

Dr Eleanor Curran earned her PhD from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1998. She was a Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at King’s College London from 1998-1999 and a Tutor there from 1997-2001. From 1999 to 2000 she was a Research Philosopher at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, investigating cognitive tasks for driving Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Systems.

Dr Curran was a lecturer at Keele University’s School of Law and Centre for Professional Ethics from 2001 to 2006. She was a lecturer at Kent Law School, University of Kent from 2006-2013 then senior lecturer until 2021. While teaching at KLS she developed one of the first undergraduate law courses on legal ethics and also developed a course on the origins and development of the idea of individual rights. 

My current research project is a new biography of Thomas Hobbes. It is now in the editing and production stage and will be published by Reaktion Books.