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Dr I G Maclachlan

Ian Maclachlan, M.A., D.Phil.
University Lecturer (CUF) in French, Fellow of Merton College
Address:  Merton College, Oxford OX1 4JD
Email:   ian.maclachlan@merton.ox.ac.uk
Tel:   01865 276322

Research

Ian Maclachlan's main research interests lie in the field of 20th-century French literature and philosophy, and particularly the relationship between those domains.

Teaching

French language and literature, especially 19th- and 20th-century; modern French thought and literary theory.

Publications

Editor, with Sean Gaston, Reading Derrida's 'Of Grammatology' (London: Continuum, 2011)

'Blanchot and the Romantic Imagination', in Blanchot Romantique, ed. John McKeane and Hannes Opelz (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011), 155-71

'Lire, écrire: Blanchot et Laporte', in Blanchot dans son siècle, ed. Monique Antelme et al, Association des amis de Maurice Blanchot (Lyon: Parangon, 2009), 251-63

'Contingencies: Reading between Nancy and Derrida', Oxford Literary Review, 27 (2005 [2007]), 139-58

Editor, The Writer and Responsibility since the Second World War (Special Issue of Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2006)

Editor, Jacques Derrida: Critical Thought (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)

'Rhythms of Memory in Louis-René des Forêts's Ostinato', Nottingham French Studies, 41 (2002), 40-48

Editor, with Michael Syrotinski, Sensual Reading: New Approaches to Reading in Relation to the Senses (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2001)

'Time Returning: Au moment voulu', Oxford Literary Review, 22 (2000), 55-73

Roger Laporte: The Orphic Text (Oxford: Legenda, 2000)