École Normale Supérieure d'Ulm, Agrégation de Philosophie, Thèse de Doctorat (Université de Paris XII)
Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy

Béatrice Han-Pile studied philosophy, history and literature at the École Normale Supérieure and was awarded a Fellowship from the Thiers Foundation, while completing her doctoral thesis on Michel Foucault. Before coming to Essex, she taught in France at the Universities of Paris IV-Sorbonne, Reims and Amiens. She was invited as a Visiting Scholar twice by the University of California (Berkeley), and by the Université de Nice (France). She is the author of L'ontologie manquée de Michel Foucault (published in the autumn of 2003 by Stanford University Press as Foucault's Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and the Historical). She also has published various papers, mostly on Foucault, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Heidegger and aesthetics.