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Biography

Dr Richards completed a DPhil at Wadham College, University of Oxford. He first taught in Oxford, then for four years in Paris, at the École normale supérieure de Paris (ENS-PSL), before joining King’s College London in 2021 as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr Richards joined UCC in 2024.

Dr Richard is a specialist in twentieth-century European and Francophone philosophy and anti-colonial theory. His research has primarily centred on the intersection of critical theory, gender, and decoloniality.

He is writing his second book, Homo Alienatus: Freedom and Psychosis in Lacan and Fanon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, British Academy Monographs, Forthcoming), which investigates the many overlapping connections between the early Lacan and the young revolutionary decolonial psychiatrist Frantz Fanon.

Dr Richards's first book was entitled The Dialectics of Love in Sartre and Lacan (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), and he has published widely in, for example, French Studies, Paragraph, Early Modern French Studies, Artl@s Bulletin, Modern & Contemporary France Journal, and The Institute of Art and Ideas Magazine. 

Dr Richards is currently co-editing two volumes, one with Thomas Waller entitled Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism (London: Bloomsbury, Forthcoming), and one with Derek Hook, entitled: Fanon and Psychoanalysis: Critical Perspectives (New York: Routledge, Forthcoming).

Dr Richards is also a member of the French Studies editorial board and an associate at the European Journal of Psychoanalysis‍

Research Interests

• Psychoanalysis and Race
• History of French Psychoanalysis.
• Comparative literature at the crossroads of cultural studies and historical epistemology with a feminist philosophy perspective.
• Gender Studies, literature, and Psychoanalysis.
• Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French, Francophone, and European Philosophy (for example, Jacques Lacan; Jean Paul-Sartre; Frantz Fanon; German Idealism).

Research Grants

	Project	Funding Body	Start Date	End Date	Award
	Science's Fiction: Lacanian Philosophy of Science and Epistemological Debates in Twentieth-century French Thought	British Academy	01-OCT-21	30-SEP-24	€386,523.32
	Pensionnaire Étranger - École normale supérieure de Paris (PSL-ULM)		01-SEP-15	01-SEP-16	€6,000.00

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Publications

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Books

	Year	Publication
	(2025)	Homo Alienatus: Freedom and Psychosis in Lacan and Fanon. Sinan Richards (2025) Homo Alienatus: Freedom and Psychosis in Lacan and Fanon. Oxford: Oxford: Oxford University Press, British Academy Monographs. [Details]
	(2023)	Dialectics of love in Sartre and Lacan. Sinan Richards (2023) Dialectics of love in Sartre and Lacan. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [DOI] [Details]

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Edited Books

	Year	Publication
	(2024)	Michel Serres: ecology, parasitism and the (post)human. Sinan Richards; Christina Howells (2024) Michel Serres: ecology, parasitism and the (post)human. Edited Books [Details]

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Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2024)	'L’Entre d’eux: Lacan, Serres and the climate emergency' Sinan Richards (2024) 'L’Entre d’eux: Lacan, Serres and the climate emergency'. Modern and Contemporary France, 32 (2):291-306 [DOI] [Details]
	(2018)	'After Lacan: Literature, Theory and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century (After Series, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 .Ankhi Mukherjee (ed)' Sinan Richards (2018) 'After Lacan: Literature, Theory and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century (After Series, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 .Ankhi Mukherjee (ed)'. French Studies, 74 (2):324-325 [DOI] [Details]
	(2024)	'‘I am a Clown’: Lacan's Difficult Literary Dandyism' Sinan Richards (2024) '‘I am a Clown’: Lacan's Difficult Literary Dandyism'. Paragraph, 47 (1):59-73 [DOI] [Details]
	(2023)	'A lesson for the world: Solange Faladé’s anti-colonial multiracialism' Sinan Richards (2023) 'A lesson for the world: Solange Faladé’s anti-colonial multiracialism'. Modern and Contemporary France, 31 (4):435-450 [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'La Mère dangereuse: Reimagining Scudéry’s Carte de Tendre with Lacan’s Graph of Desire' Sinan Richards (2021) 'La Mère dangereuse: Reimagining Scudéry’s Carte de Tendre with Lacan’s Graph of Desire'. French Studies, [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'The Logician of Madness: Fanon's Lacan' Sinan Richards (2021) 'The Logician of Madness: Fanon's Lacan'. Paragraph, 4 (3):214-237 [DOI] [Details]

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Articles

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	Infidelity as Reality: Re-Staging the Global South with Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up. Sinan Richards (2019) Infidelity as Reality: Re-Staging the Global South with Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-up. Articles [Details]
	(2017)	The Violence of Politeness: Implicit Bienséance in the Sadian Universe. Sinan Richards (2017) The Violence of Politeness: Implicit Bienséance in the Sadian Universe. Articles [DOI] [Details]

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Book Chapters

	Year	Publication
	(2025)	'“Organisational Madness,”' Sinan Richards; Patrick ffrench (2025) '“Organisational Madness,”' In: Literature and Visual Culture: Critical Interventions. London: Bloomsbury. [Details]
	(2024)	'On My Antecedents' Richards, S., Hook, D., Vanheule, S., Strosberg, B. & Dall'Aglio, J., (2024) 'On My Antecedents' In: Reading Lacan's Écrits, volume 4, From ‘Overture to this Collection’ to ‘Presentation on Psychical Causality’. London: Routledge. [DOI] [Details]
	(2019)	'Sartre and Lacan: Reading Qui Perd Gagne alongside Les Non-Dupes Errent' Sinan Richards (2019) 'Sartre and Lacan: Reading Qui Perd Gagne alongside Les Non-Dupes Errent' In: Oliver Davis and Colin Davis (eds). Freedom and the Subject of Theory: Essays in Honour of Christina Howells. Oxford: Legenda.   [Details]
	(2018)	',Rühre Nicht, Bock! Denn es brennt’: Schelling and Christianity' Sinan Richards (2018) ',Rühre Nicht, Bock! Denn es brennt’: Schelling and Christianity' In: Sotiris Mitralexis and Dionysios Skliris (eds). Žižek and Christianity. London and New York: Routledge. [Details]

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Magazine article

	Year	Publication
	(2024)	Love is close to madness: Lacan and Deleuze on the nature of love. Sinan Richards (2024) Love is close to madness: Lacan and Deleuze on the nature of love. Magazine article   [Details]

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Translations

	Year	Publication
	(2018)	Jean-Pierre Dupuy, “Science without Philosophy: The Case of Big Data”. Sinan Richards (2018) Jean-Pierre Dupuy, “Science without Philosophy: The Case of Big Data”. Translations [Details]
	(2016)	“The Economic Catastrophe as a Passionate Event”. Sinan Richards (2016) “The Economic Catastrophe as a Passionate Event”. Translations [Details]

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Reviews

	Year	Publication
	(2016)	Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, translated by Jason E. Smith, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). Sinan Richards (2016) Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, translated by Jason E. Smith, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014). Reviews   [Details]

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Professional Activities

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Honours and Awards

	Year	Title	Awarding Body
	2023	Module 1: British Academy Leadership Training Programme.	Advanced HE & The British Academy
	2023	Module 2: British Academy Introduction to Management and Leadership in Academic Research Environments.	Advanced HE & The British Academy
	2018	SEDA PDF Support Learning Award - Postgraduate Teaching Certificate, Developing Learning and Teaching (DLT). Oxford Learning institute	University of Oxford
	2017	Preparation for Learning and Teaching at Oxford (PLTO). Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford.	University of Oxford

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Education

	Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
	2013	University College London	BSc	History and Philosophy of Science
	2016	École normale supérieure de Paris (ENS-PSL)	No Degree	Philosophy
	2020	University ox Oxford	DPhil	French Thought - Medieval and Modern Languages
	2014	University College London	MA	Comparative Literature

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Committees

	Committee	Function	From / To
	King's Centre for the Humanities and Health	Member	2022 / 2024
	Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires sur le politique (CRIPOLIS).	Member	2022 / 2024
	Society for French Studies Executive Committee	Publicity Officer	2020 / 2024
	Centre International d’Étude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine (CIEPFC), USR 3608, République des Savoirs.	Member	2018 / 2021
	Society for French Studies Executive Committee	Committee Member	2019 / 2020

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Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	École normale supérieure (PSL-ULM)	Enseignant Contractuel	01-SEP-19 / 01-SEP-20
	University of Oxford	Sessional Lecturer	01-JAN-17 / 01-AUG-17
	King's College London	British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow	01-SEP-21 / 01-AUG-24
	École normale supérieure (PSL-ULM)	Maître de Langue	01-AUG-17 / 01-AUG-19

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Languages

	Language	Reading	Writing	Speaking
	French	Fluent	Fluent	Fluent

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Journal Activities

	Journal	Role	To / From
	French Studies	Member of Editorial Board	-

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Teaching Activities

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Teaching Interests

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• The History of Psychoanalysis in France.
• Twentieth Century French Philosophy.
• Law and French Thought.
• Decolonial Psychoanalysis.

Modules taught: 

• FR2801 - History of Ideas in France
  
• FR4801 - Language and Interpretation
• FR2202 - Literary Seminar I 
• FR4201 - Literary Seminar II
• FR2204 - Topics in Literature and Culture
• FR1201 - Introduction to French Studies
• FR4311 - Trauma and Narrative in the Francophone World  
  
• LL6111 - Theorising the Global: Migration Studies, Postcolonialism, and Critical Theory

Dr Sinan Richards is the French department's Law Representative on the BCL, Law and French degree.