Dr Stella Gonzalez-Arnal

I am currently Director of Research Culture for the School of Criminology, Law and Politics.

I first came to the University of Hull as an undergraduate Erasmus exchange student, an experience which I found immensely rewarding. I would advise everybody to take advantage of such exchanges. After I graduated at my home university in Spain, I came back to Hull as a postgraduate student and completed an MA in Philosophy of Mind and a PhD in Feminist Epistemology supervised by Professor Kathleen Lennon. I was awarded a Postdoctoral fellowship by the Fundacion Seneca (Spain) to undertake further research at the University of Hull.

I have taught philosophy at the Universities of Keele and Leeds. I have been a funded visiting research fellow at the Universidad of Chile (Chile), the Universidad of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Haryana University (India) and the Universidad de Granada (Spain). I have delivered invited PG courses at those institutions.

I have led and participated in funded projects in collaboration with universities worldwide. From March 2024-April 2025, I was the PI for a British Council funded project ‘Fostering Women’s Leadership in Ukrainian Academia. An Intersectional and Culturally Responsive Perspective’ (£19,000) with Mariupol State University. From 2012-2014, I was the lead for the Hull team for an EU ALFAIII project MISEAL, 'Policies to Promote Inclusion and Equity in Higher Education Institutions in Latin America' (over 3 million Euros). The participant institutions were twelve Universities from Latin-America and four from Europe. From 2008-2011, I was the co-coordinator of the Hull team for the GEMMA project funded by the ERASMUS MUNDUS scheme that comprised eight European universities and one from USA. From 2005-2002 I participated in two Projects for Curriculum development (MA in Gender and Development and MA in Gender and Culture) with the University of Chile (Chile) (£5.455) and Haryana University (India) (£11.250) funded by British Council. From 2003-2004 I was PI (together with Dr. Rachel Alsop) of the project ‘The Recruitment and Retention of “Widening Participation” Students in the Department of Humanities’ (£4.500) Funded by FASS (University of Hull).

In 2013, I was awarded the Margharita Brentano award (15.000 Euros) by the Free University of Berlin. This is an award for outstanding achievements in Gender Studies and Equality. I received it as the Lead of the MISEAL project at the University of Hull.

My research is interdisciplinary and my areas of research are gender, feminist theory, philosophy of education and intersectionality, but I have also researched in other areas such as ethics and biotechnology. My publications reflect my interdisciplinary interests. I have co-edited a book Embodied Selves, with Kathleen Lennon and Jill Jagger (Palgrave). I have published articles in Feminist Economics, Women: a Cultural Review, Gender and Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Teorema and Forum. I have published book chapters on altruism, intersectionality and Human Rights, intersectionality and identity, transsexual identities, biotechnology and human/animal chimeras, biotechnology and the patenting of indigenous knowledge, inclusion and Higher Education, intersectionality/inclusion in teaching in Higher Education, epistemic justice and decoloniality, among others.

I have successfully supervised PhD in the following areas: Feminist theory (Simone de Beauvoir), African Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind (Phenomenology/Cognitive Science) and in Epistemology (pluralism and truth).

I have been invited to deliver talks and lectures at Germany, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Croatia, India, Costa Rica and at UK institutions. I have participated in international conferences at universities in Italy, Greece, Denmark, Barbados, Spain, Germany and the UK among others.