“My chosen setting is in front of a bookshelf in my College study that is crowded with books, images and other props. This is a good representation of my academic (and some other) interests. There is also a hidden object; but that is to remain hidden, sorry!

 I am and have always been rather proud of being the first female Senior Tutor of Corpus.”

Marina Frasca-Spada was born and educated in Rome (Italy). She took her first degree (Laurea, MA equivalent) in Philosophy at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", and her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her publications include Space and the Self in Hume's Treatise (Cambridge, 1998, pbk 2000), Books and Sciences in History (co-edited with N. Jardine, Cambridge, 2000), Impressions of Hume (co-edited with P.J.E. Kail, Oxford, 2005), and a number of articles in scholarly journals and volumes.

Marina is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy and at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Her current research interests and teaching include issues in metaphysics, philosophy of science, modern aesthetic, and eighteenth-century studies, as well as her specialty in the history of modern philosophy (from Descartes to Kant). Her long-term research projects include a study of Hume and Kant on human nature and experience.

She has been the Senior Tutor of Corpus since 2007. She was the Associate Secretary of the Senior Tutors' Committee from 2016-20, and is currently its Chair.