Dr Sinan Richards is Lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and a specialist in twentieth-century European and Francophone philosophy and decolonial theory.

Prior to his appointment at UCC, Dr Richards completed a DPhil at Wadham College, University of Oxford. Sinan previously held teaching positions at the University of Oxford and the École normale supérieure de Paris (ENS-PSL), before he joined King's College London in 2021 as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. At the ENS, Sinan was an academic member of the Centre International d'Étude de la Philosophie Française Contemporaine (CIEPFC) cluster of the République des Savoirs (ENS/CNRS/Collège de France) [USR 3608]. At King's, he served on the Université Paris Cité's Centre de recherches interdisciplinaires sur le politique (CRIPOLIS) advisory board.

Dr Richards's first book was entitled Dialectics of Love in Sartre and Lacan (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). He is finalizing his second book, Homo Alienatus: Freedom and Psychosis in Lacan and Fanon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, British Academy Monographs, Forthcoming).

Dr Richards is co-editor, alongside Dr Thomas Waller, of Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism (London: Bloomsbury, 2025), and co-editor, alongside Professor Christina Howells, of: Michel Serres: ecology, parasitism and the (post)human, a Special Issue of the Modern & Contemporary France Journal. Sinan is currently co-editing, with Derek Hook, Fanon and Lacan: Decolonial Psychoanalysis (Routledge, Forthcoming 2026), and, alongside Professor Jane Hiddleston, the 2027 volume of the Francophone Postcolonial Studies series on Fanon at 100 (Liverpool University Press, Forthcoming 2027). Alongside Professor Patrick ffrench and Professor Peter Graton a volume on Catherine Malabou's notion of placticity (to be published with Edinburgh University Press).   

Sinan is a member of the French Studies editorial board and an associate at the European Journal of Psychoanalysis. Sinan is a member of the of the collectif de Pantin and the UBUNTU network for decolonisation and psychoanalysis.

Dr Richards welcomes expressions of interest for PhD research proposals and Postdoctoral projects

• FR1201 - Introduction to French Studies
• FR2801 - French Critical Thought I: from the Early Modern to the Nineteenth Century
• LL2003 - Aspects of the Classical Tradition
• FR4801 - French Critical Thought II: from the Twentieth Century to the Present
• FR2202 - Literary Seminar I
• FR4201 - Literary Seminar II
• FR2040 - Love and Desire: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century French Thought
• FR4040 - The Logic of Chaos: Reason and Madness in French and Francophone Thought
• FR2204 - Topics in Literature and Culture
• FR4311 - Trauma and Narrative in the Francophone World
• LL6111 - Theorising the Global: Migration Studies, Postcolonialism, and Critical Theory
• LL7001 - Presenting Theory and Methodology.