Profile

My doctorate brings together the work of Jacques Derrida with the politics of migration and asylum rights. This involves a critical consideration of Derrida's political interventions, his work on human rights, international law, institutions, cosmopolitanism, and Europe. This project has two aims. First, to engage in a critical analysis of Derrida's later work and its relationship to politics. Second, to address his media interventions, particularly those in relation to undocumented migrants among other issues, and in doing so consider the relationship between media, the public space and philosophy. I wish to offer an account of Derrida as a highly politically engaged thinker and, by placing it in contact with a pressing political issue, critically test the limits of this politics. Equally, through Derrida, this project will make its own contribution to our present discourse on the refugee crisis. My supervisor is Dr Martin Crowley.

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Alongside my doctorate project, I have (variously well-defined) research interests in the following areas: The work of Islamic philosophers in France and the French-speaking world, especially Algeria; Irish Studies, in particular the relationship between contemporary Irish culture and continental philosophy; and migration studies.
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Outside of academia, I have a background in media and education. I spent a year writing on second-level education for The Irish Times, Ireland's newspaper of record, and for a number of years regularly gave interviews across all forms of national media. Alongside that, I was involved with two different companies in education in Ireland. The intersection between the media and education remains a subject of genuine interest to me and this experience is something that I aim to bring into my own research and teaching.