Dr Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal

<p>Dr. Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal is an Affiliated Researcher in the Philosophy of Religion at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Her work sits at the intersection of philosophy and theology, with a particular focus on Søren Kierkegaard, mysticism, and Earth ethics.</p>
<p>She held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Cambridge (2018–2022), during which she developed her research project <em>Kierkegaard's Reception of Johannes Tauler</em>. Her doctoral dissertation — awarded <em>opus eximium</em> and the prize for the best doctoral dissertation in the Humanities at CAU Kiel, Germany (2015) — examined Kierkegaard's concept of repetition in the context of a post-Hegelian philosophy.</p>
<p>She has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University and the Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, and has presented her work at international conferences across Europe and North America. Her research engages questions of selfhood, ecology, and (trans)formation, and has extended into public-facing work including BBC Radio, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, and curatorial projects.</p>