Andreas m. Espegren Masvie

I am the John and Daria Barry Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in Civic Virtue at Regent’s Park College, the University of Oxford – and completed my DPhil (PhD) in 2026 at Christ Church, the University of Oxford. I work on the intersection of political philosophy and theology, making use of resources from classics and patristics. I also edit the new Norwegian magazine Speilet.

More broadly, my interests revolve around the meaning of being human: what does it mean to be and become human, and how can we live well? I have come to appreciate that certain components are integral to the good life: Fauré’s Requiem, the Danish Gambit, Rochefort 10, Maradona’s warm-up in the UEFA Cup semi-final in 1989, Randi, Gorgonzola pizza with pickled red onions, Barbour cord trousers and merino wool turtlenecks and Algha glasses, morning coffee with cinnamon rolls before 5am, picking wild raspberries, skijoring with pointer in front and children in pulk behind, the Liturgy of the Hours, bells and smells (rather lots of it) – and, of course, silence.