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- Executive Director of the European Institute
- Faculty of Laws
- UCL SLASH




Uta's research is broadly in modern European thought, culture, and politics. She is especially interested in 20th-century continental writers that seek to straddle aesthetics and the idea of the political. But she also works on the ideational and cultural dimensions of politics and policy in Europe.
Her most recent publications include the co-authored article Negotiating Brexit: The Cultural Sources of British Hard Bargaining (JCMS, 2020), and a chapter on the politics of emotions in Brexit and Beyond. Rethinking
the Futures of Europe, which she co-edited with Benjamin Martill (UCL
Press, 2018)
Uta's current work includes research on Arendt, Machiavelli and Jankélévitch on political virtuosity; the crisis of krisis in contemporary British politics; and the politics of mourning in theatre and theory. She has previously worked on the role culture plays for theories of citizenship; on memory cultures in urban and architectural practices; and on cultural policy in the history of European integration.
Uta is affiliated to the BA/MA Comparative Literature and teaches on the new cross-faculty module Crisis and Disease in the West: Culture, Humanity and Big Data. She also gives occasional lectures on and supervises for other
programmes at UCL, such as the BA European Culture and the MA Global
Migration.
For the UCL Department of History, Uta used to teach the two-part MA module History and Theory of European Integration.
Uta is currently co-convening two working groups at UCL to reform MA/MSc programmes in European Studies in the Faculties of Arts and Humanities, Social and Historical Sciences and Laws.
2009 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Cambridge | |
2002 | Master of Philosophy | University of Cambridge | |
2001 | Master of Arts (Hons) | University of Edinburgh |