I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a joint appointment at the Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency (UQAM) and Le Centre de Recherche en Éthique (UdeM) in Montréal, where I am also a member of the philosophy department at McGill. My postdoctoral research project is supervised by Amandine Catala and Kristin Voigt. I previously studied for a DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Amia Srinivasan and Rachel Fraser, and before that took a BA and then an MPhil in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

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Most of my work is dedicated to thinking about hermeneutical injustices. That means I spend most of my time thinking about why people sometimes fail in their attempts to render certain things about themselves intelligible, why it matters when they do, and what can be done to prevent this either happening or mattering. An overarching theme is the desirability of living in a world in which less importance gets attached to certain things about people being intelligible, and the formulation of strategies for bringing such a world about. Outside of this work I have research interests in the philosophy of love, the ethics of various forms of artistic production, and in the work of a number of figures on the margins of philosophy, including Eve Sedgwick, Susan Sontag, and especially Roland Barthes.

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My CV can be found here.

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My PhilPeople page can be found here.

 

My email address is nicholas.clanchy@mcgill.ca.

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