Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Marina G. Ogden holds a BA in Humanities from St Petersburg's Herzen University (the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia), an MRes in Art Theory and Philosophy from Central Saint Martins UAL and a PhD in Modern Languages and Cultures from the University of Glasgow. A Research Affiliate in Theology and Religious Studies at the School of Critical Studies of the University of Glasgow, a Research Assistant at The Lev Shestov Studies Society and an award-winning artist, she is an interdisciplinary researcher, specializing in the philosophy of Lev Shestov and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian and European philosophy and culture. She has published articles, given interviews and created artwork on the subjects of philosophy and art, Lev Shestov, R. G. Collingwood, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard and Sigmund Freud.