Victoria joined Loughborough in 2023 as a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy, specialising in feminist philosophy and politics. Prior to this, she lectured at Oxford Brookes University from 2013-2023, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality at Columbia University from 2017-2018.
Victoria has won funding awards from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. To date, she has published six books, and her work appears in journals such as Signs and Feminist Theory. Victoria is Co-Editor-in-Chief for Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and a longstanding Co-Editor of the journal Radical Philosophy.
Since 2025, Victoria has been the Project Lead for The Feminist Miscarriage Project: a two-year, AHRC-funded research collaboration bringing together academics, activists, clinicians, artists and writers to transform how miscarriage and pregnancy endings are understood and supported.
Victoria’s research in feminist philosophy and theory explores how ideas about time, history, and reproduction shape feminist politics.
In her current work, Victoria explores the politics and temporalities of pregnancy. Her book Pregnancy Without Birth: A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage (2022), argues that pregnancy should not be defined solely by its expected endpoint – birth – but as a fundamentally ambiguous and open-ended situation with multiple possible meanings and outcomes. In so doing, the book challenges presumed divisions between miscarriage, stillbirth, live birth, and abortion, showing how these experiences are often separated by moral and political boundaries that obscure their shared embodied and social conditions. As an alternative, the book advances a ‘full-spectrum’ approach to pregnancy, calling for solidarity across different reproductive experiences, and reproductive justice and bodily autonomy for all.
This reframing of pregnancy connects to Victoria’s broader interest in how feminist thinkers and activists understand time. In her first book, Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History (2014), for example, she challenges the familiar narrative that feminism progresses in successive stages or ‘waves’, each replacing the last. Browne argues instead that feminist history is nonlinear and open-ended, as concepts, conflicts and practices recur and coexist across generations. By rethinking political time in this way, the book shows how feminists can remain in productive critical relation to earlier movements, without simply repeating or rejecting them, or judging political struggles only according to whether they achieve a single, definitive endpoint.
Victoria teaches undergraduate modules in the history of political thought, epistemology, feminist philosophy and gender politics. She also supervises undergraduate dissertations on a range of topics in politics and philosophy.
- Isobel van Hagen – Practical Anarchist Approaches to Gendered Violence in the 'Alegal' Space
- Teresa Melo – Art as activism within the Reproductive Justice movement in Brazil
- Emily Cousens – Vulnerability and the Feminist Politics of Sexual Violence (awarded 2020)
Selected Books
- Pregnancy Without Birth: A Feminist Philosophy of Miscarriage (Bloomsbury, 2022).
- Vulnerability and the Politics of Care: Transdisciplinary Dialogues, co-edited with Jason Danely and Doerthe Rosenow (British Academy Conference Proceedings series, Oxford University Press, 2021).
- Feminism, Time and Nonlinear History (Palgrave, 2014).
Most Recent Articles
- ‘Dismantling the Borderlines Between Abortion and Miscarriage: Towards Full-Spectrum Solidarity’, Journal of Gender Studies, 2026.
- ‘“Every Miscarriage is a Workplace Accident”: Theorising Miscarriage Through a Labour Lens’, Women’s Studies International Forum, 2025.
- ‘How to Defeat Miscarriage Stigma: From “Breaking the Silence” to Reproductive Justice’, Feminist Theory, 2024.
- ‘Anti-Abortion Feminism: How is this even a thing?’, Radical Philosophy, 2022.
- ‘A Pregnant Pause: Pregnancy, Miscarriage and Suspended Time’, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2022.