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Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin

Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin (PhD) is an Independent Scholar in Philosophical Aesthetics. Originally from Holland, she taught for eight years at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto and, more recently, at the Department of Theology an Religious Studies of Kings’s College London, where she is still a Visiting Research Scholar. She is the curator of the exhibition ‘Art, Conflict and Remembrance: the murals of the Bogside Artists’ and is currently working on a book on the philosopher Susanne K. Langer to be published by Bloomsbury in 2018. She lives with her husband Jonathan Chaplin in a small village near Cambridge in the UK.

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