Dr Niall KennedyTeaching Fellow

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Staff Research Areas – Dr Niall Kennedy, Department of French
I research Modern French Philosophy, particularly the philosophy of literature, film, and the arts. My research to date has focused on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, but I also have interests in the work of Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, and Jean-Luc Nancy. I am also developing a second research strand focusing on French and Francophone cinema, and in particular the cinema of Francophone Africa.

Doctoral Studies
I completed my PhD at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London.

Recent publications and Research News
2022 ‘Film Making in the Subjunctive: Fantasy in the Films of Nacer Khemir’, Philosophy and Film Conference Proceedings, Skopje: Philosophical Society of Macedonia.
2021 ‘The Intercessor or Heteronym in Gilles Deleuze and Fernando Pessoa’, in Paulo de Assis and Paolo Giudici (eds.), Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research (vol.3), Orpheus Institute Series, Louvain: Louvain University Press.
2021 ‘Free Indirect Discourse in Gilles Deleuze and Pier Paolo Pasolini’ (Invited Talk), SineFilozofi International Symposium on Cinema and Philosophy IV, Ankara, Turkey.