Sophia M. Connell is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. She previously taught philosophy at the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia and was a Research Fellow of St Johns College, Cambridge.

Dr Connell’s research centres on Aristotle’s biological works and their relation to his philosophical thought. She is author of Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the Generation of Animals (2016) and Aristotle on Women: Physiology, Psychology and Politics (2021) and numerous papers on Aristotle’s biology, ethics and psychology. She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle’s Biology (2021) and Aristotle’s Parts of Animals: A Critical Guide (2025). She also works on ancient and contemporary women philosophers and is the co-editor (with Frederique Janssen-Lauret) of Lost Voices: Women in Philosophy 1870-1970 (2023).

Dr Connell teaches ancient and medieval philosophy and topics in contemporary philosophy, including environmental ethics. Research presentations within the last year include: ‘Aristotle and Theophrastus on the technê of agriculture’ (University of Heidelberg), ‘Aristotle, women and virtue’ (Chinese University of Hong Kong), ‘Wittgenstein and Ambrose’ (HU Berlin), ‘Theophrastus on plant ethics’ (Rutgers), ‘Aristotle on nutrition and generation in plants’ (Yale), ‘Aristotle on maternal love’ (APA, New Orleans) and ‘Bertrand Russell’s feminism’ (UCL).