Research
The moving body, ecological body philosophy, holism, biosemiotics, human sign interpretation, biological meaning, anthroposemiotic fiction, the play-world, suprasubjective relations, sport lifeworld commonality, naturogenic culture sites, nature sports, play in the technosphere, esports
Teaching
Philosophy of sport, sport ethics, body philosophy, ecophilosophy, environmental ethics, interdisciplinary environmental humanities, logical/argument analysis. Course manager for IS210 – Philosophical perspectives in sports.
Short biography
Margrethe Voll Storaas is a research fellow in philosophy at the Department of Sport and Social Sciences (2020-2024) with the project: By Nature of Our Relations: The Semiotic Body in Motion. Informed by the research question ‘how may we understand the moving body ecologically?’, the article-based PhD project employs biosemiotics and ecological theory to propose on a holistic view of the body by the nature of its relations and the role of fiction in humans’ semiotic agency in sport.
Storaas holds an MA and BA from the University of Oslo, graduating in Development, Environment and Cultural Change from Centre for development and the environment (SUM) with the master’s thesis ‘Ecocide, a crime against peace?’ During her bachelor’s in International studies prior, she was an exchange student to Washington D.C. at the American University’s Foreign Policy program while interning with the American Meteorological Society and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Previous employment includes her role as a research assistant with the Norwegian Business School on negative emissions technology, as well as project assistant to the Arne Næss Programme on Global Justice and the Environment. At her current institution, she chaired her local PhD and postdoc union 2021-2022, in which capacity she co-organized a large-scale and cross-institutional event on academic freedom of speech (May 2022), first of its kind locally, with national outreach.