Professor Timothy O'Leary

Professor Timothy O'Leary

Professor
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

Timothy O’Leary is a philosopher who has worked and studied in Ireland, Paris, Hong Kong, and Australia.

His research is in the area of contemporary European philosophy, including the work of Michel Foucault and Jacques Rancière. He has published 2 monographs, co-edited 3 volumes, guest-edited 2 Journal Special Issues, and published many journal articles and book chapters on topics including the work of Michel Foucault, the relations between ethics and aesthetics, the ethical dimensions of...

Phone
+61 2 9065 7458
E-mail
t.oleary@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 368 Morven Brown Building

My research has been funded by a large grant from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council.

* I am co-Convenor of the UNSW research group Critique Now: https://www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-architecture/our-schools/humanities-languages/our-research/centres-networks/critique-network

* I recently published a co-edited volume: K. Thiele, B.M. Kaiser, T. O'Leary (eds). 2022.  The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics. London: Rowman & Littlefield: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786616463/The-Ends-of-Critique-Methods-Institutions-Politics

* I am currently working on a long-term project on concepts of "sensibility" in ethics and literature. This will develop some ideas from the work of Jacques Rancière, combined with a reading of various works of literature ranging from Henry James and Virginia Woolf to Anna Burns and Annie Ernaux. 

* I am involved in the work of an international research group called Terra Critica, based at the University of Utrecht and including researchers from a range of humanities disciplines based at universities across Europe, the United States, and Australia.  http://terracritica.net/

* I am co-General Editor of the series "New Critical Humanities" at Rowman & Littlefield International.

https://www.rowmaninternational.com/our-publishing/series/new-critical-humanities/

 

 

My Research Supervision

I currently co-Supervise PhD students working within a range of disciplines, in the areas of ethics, comparative Chinese-Western philosophy, literature and embodiment, and social theory.