Personal profile
Biography
- Professor and Head of the Department of French at University College Cork;
- Deputy Director, UCC Future Humanities Institute;
- Director of Research for the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures;
- Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC);
- Co-convenor of the Political Technologies research cluster within that Centre.
I warmly welcome all inquiries, especially from current or prospective students at any level, other researchers, the media and members of the public.
Research Interests
My research focuses on 'political technologies' across the following four principal areas:
- Modern and contemporary French philosophy, theory and literature, in particular the work of Jacques Rancière;
- The psychedelic humanities;
- Queer theory: Hatred of Sex (2022), co-authored with Tim Dean, argues that our society is organised around an aversion to the disordering effects of sex;
- Policing the digital: conspiracy theory and the politics of the mis/disinformation agenda.
External positions
Editorial Board member, Psychedelics
2025 → …
Medical Psychedelics Working Group, Drug Science
2024 → …
Series Editor, Studies in Modern and Contemporary France, Liverpool University Press
2024 → …
Editor, Modern & Contemporary France, Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France
2021 → …
UCC Futures (primary)
- Future Humanities Institute
Other research affiliations
- Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLAC)
PhD Supervision
- Available for PhD supervision
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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Henri Michaux's program for the psychedelic humanities
Davis, O., 2023, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 14Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Psychedelic Humanities
Davis, O., Noorani, T., Dyck, E., Langlitz, N., Schlag, A. & Dymock, A., 21 Aug 2024, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 15Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
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Hatred of Sex
Davis, O. & Dean, T., 2022, University of Nebraska Press. 188 p. (Provocations)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Autonomy and autoheteronomy in psychedelically assisted psychotherapy
Davis, O., 2022, Routledge eBooks. Informa Healthcare, p. 83-100 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedings › Chapter › peer-review
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A lexicon for psychedelic research and treatment
Davis, O., 22 Sep 2025, In: Drug Science, Policy and Law.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Open Access
Activities
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On dissensus and Catherine Malabou’s reading of Jacques Rancière in Stop Thief!
Davis, O. (Speaker)
23 Oct 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Turbulent Transformations: Henri Michaux’s experiments with the psychedelic enhancement of creativity
Davis, O. (Speaker)
9 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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The psychedelic renascence of democracy
Davis, O. (Speaker)
30 Apr 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Presentation to research workshop: The Renaissance of Psychedelic Therapies: Lessons from Switzerland
Davis, O. (Speaker)
20 Jun 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press/Media
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Oliver Davis and Tim Dean discuss Hatred of Sex with Eugenio Duarte
1/12/25
1 Media contribution
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Oliver Davis and Tim Dean discuss their book Hatred of Sex with Matthew Pieknik
17/11/22
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