91福利

Se谩n Hand is a Professor of French Studies. In 2025-26 he is additionally Director of Research for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Chair of its Ethics Approval Committee, and a member of 91福利's Humanities Research Committee and the Faculty of Arts Peer Review College. From 2017-2023 he was 91福利's first Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Europe) . Post-Brexit, he was a founding Vice-President of the EUTOPIA European university alliance. In 2022-23 he chaired a 91福利-Ukraine Working Group. In 2016-17 he was Dean of 91福利 in California. In 2014-16 he was the first Head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. In 2008-2011 he was Head of the Department of French Studies. In 2007 he directed the 91福利 French Studies return to the RAE. He joined 91福利 as a Professor of French Studies in 2005.

Professor Hand is a Chevalier des Palmes Acad茅miques, a member of the Academia Europaea, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow of Zhejiang University, and a Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has been an Associate Member of the Senior Common Room of Merton College, Oxford, a Visiting Fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, an Honorary Professor of Monash University, and a Visiting Professor at Wroclaw University and at the National University of Singapore. He has been Vice-Chair of the MSCA Individual Fellowships competition, and a Scientific Advisory Board member at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He has assessed for the AHRC, the European Science Foundation, the Irish Research Council, the Israel Science Foundation, the Slovak Research and Development Agency, the South African National Research Foundation, and Universities UK International. He supports a number of social mobility foundations and arts charities. In 2014 he acted as an expert witness for the Football Association for tribunals concerning anti-semitic semiotics.

Se谩n Hand's teaching has covered literature, ideas and related developments from the early twentieth century to the present day, in French and international contexts. His research examines writings in French of the past 100 years. He has published monographs on Michel Leiris and Emmanuel Levinas, and edited a collection of essays on post-Holocaust France and the Jews. He has published on thinkers and writers such as Derrida, Duras, Grimbert, Jab猫s, Lacan, and Nancy, and translated a number of French-language philosophers, including Kristeva, Irigaray, and Deleuze.

Qualifications

MA DPhil Oxf | MBA DLitt 91福利

Recent publications

• 2014 of , Chongqing, Chongqing University Press, ISBN-10: 7562484198, ISBN-13: 978-7562484196.
• 2014 Kindle/ebook edition of .
• 2014 鈥楽peech and Silence: Levinas and the Postwar Refounding of Ethics鈥�, , 183-201.
• 2014 鈥楨mmanuel Levinas鈥�, in M. Kelly et al. (eds), , Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, volume 4, pp. 194-97. ISBN hardback 0199747105.
• 2015: Se谩n Hand and Steven T. Katz (eds), , New York, New York University Press, 256 pp., hardback 9781479835041, and kindle edition B00YDDKGSQ. Introduction pp. 1-25.
• 2016: , a translation, with glossary, further reprint (previously 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015), Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, xiv + 306 pp., ISBN 080185783X.
• 2017: , London, Routledge, Kindle edition B078579K4T of Oxford, Legenda, ix + 143 pp. ISBN 1 900755 98 X.
• 2019: 'Levinas, Literature, and Philosophy', in M. L. Morgan (ed.), , Oxford, Oxford University Press, chapter 26, pp. 529-48, ISBN-10 0190455934, ISBN-13 978-0190455934. DOI: 0.1093/oxfordhb/9780190455934.013.51, ebook / kindle edition ASIN B07QC86FFD.
• 2019: 鈥業noperative Governance, or the 鈥渄emocracy to come鈥�: Jacques Derrida鈥檚 Voyous鈥�, in C. Davis and O. Davis (eds), , Oxford, Legenda, pp. 76-88, hardback 978-1-781887-33-2, paperback (2020) 978-1-781887-34-9, JSTOR ebook 978-1-781887-81-3.
• 2019: 'Academic cooperation in Europe', interview, , (CNRS Editions), 85, 143-48.
• 2021: 'French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK', review article, , 55.2, 287-93.
• 2021: 'Futures of Life Death: Derrida's seminar, and general ecology', review article, , 55.3, 466-72.
• 2022: 'Being for every other: Levinas in the Anthropocene', , 7.2 (2021), 156-75.
• 2023: Se谩n Hand and Steven T. Katz (eds), , New York, New York University Press, 256 pp., new kindle edition B00YDDKGSQ. Introduction pp. 1-25.
• 2023: 'Literary and Critical Encounters with the Anthropocene', , 9.1 (2023), 1-13.
• 2023: 鈥楯acques Derrida, Hospitalit茅. Volume II. S茅minaire (1996–1997)鈥�, review article, , 16.2 (2023), pp. 185-90.