I’m a DPhil student in philosophy at the University of Oxford. My research centers on questions in practical philosophy, broadly construed: questions about human beings, how they make sense of themselves and their world, their practical and theoretical powers, and the objects and the limits of those powers. In my work I tend to think about these questions at the intersection of philosophy, literature, and theology.

Before coming to Oxford I studied philosophy at Colorado College and the University of Warwick. My doctoral thesis is provisionally titled Mirrors of Difficult Realities: An Essay on Annihilation and Literary Form after Porete. It focuses on the roles of moral vision, effort, self-abnegation, and literary form in the medieval mystic Marguerite Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls, in the more recent works of Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch, and Cora Diamond, and in our everyday conception of the terrain of moral life.

For links to and short descriptions of my publications, see here. And here is my CV. I’m also the Vice President and Treasurer of the British Postgraduate Philosophy Association. I can be contacted by email at matt[dot]rosen[at]philosophy.ox.ac.uk.