For the academic year 2025-2026 I will be a Departmental Lecturer in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy at the University of Oxford, in association with Lady Margaret Hall. I was previously 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 Montreal, where I was also a member of the philosophy department at McGill. In 2023 I graduated with a DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, which I completed under the supervision of Amia Srinivasan and Rachel Fraser; I previously studied for a BA and an MPhil in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.

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Beginning with my doctoral thesis, much of my work to-date concerns hermeneutical injustices. That means much of my time is spent 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 where less importance gets attached to certain things about people being intelligible, and the formulation of strategies for bringing such a world about. 

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In addition to this work on hermeneutical injustices, I have research interests in trans philosophy, the philosophy of love, and the work of a number of figures on the margins of philosophy - especially Roland Barthes. I am also an Associate Editor at Hypatia.

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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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My pronouns are they/them.

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