Dr. Tea Lobo

Tea Lobo studied Philosophy and Anglophone literature at the University of Basel, Fribourg and Harvard. She was granted a four-year SNSF scholarship (Doc.ch) to write her dissertation and has completed her PhD in General and Comparative Literature at the University of Fribourg in 2017. Her dissertation is on the interactions between literature and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy, especially regarding questions on the perception and representation of interiority. She participated in an international interdisciplinary postdoctoral program in Parma and Florence, Italy in October 2017, where she started working on urban aesthetics. She was a Junior Fellow at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg for the Autumn Term 2018. She has received a grant from the Holcim Foundation to continue her research in philosophy of the city at the ETH Zurich. In 2021/2022 she was a junior fellow at the Collegium Helveticum. She is now a postdoctoral researcher within the Chair for Practical Philosophy at the ETH where she is focusing on hermeneutical injustice in the city.