Willow Verkerk is a Lecturer in Continental Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Gendered Mimesis Project at KU Leuven. She was previously a Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy at CRMEP, Kingston University. Willow is the author of Nietzsche and Friendship (Bloomsbury, 2019) and other academic texts in continental and feminist philosophy. Current research topics include Nietzsche as a political thinker, a genealogical investigation of the post-Enlightenment subject, and the ontology of gender.