Emily McLaughlin

Emily McLaughlin is a Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. She specializes in contemporary French literature, ecocriticism, and ecological thought. Her research explores non-human presences in literature, focusing on writers like Eugène Guillevic, Philippe Jaccottet, and Édouard Glissant. She holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and has published a monograph on Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy. Her teaching spans 19th-century to contemporary French literature, including postcolonial, feminist, and queer theory approaches. She contributes to the MSt Methodologies Paper and delivers lectures on 20th-century French prose and poetry.

Education: B.A. in French and Spanish (Oxford), postgraduate studies at Royal Holloway and Oxford. Previous roles include Junior Research Fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford, and Leverhulme Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge.

Research interests center on ecological thought in literature, interrogating human-nonhuman boundaries. Her current project examines Francophone writers reimagining ecological relationships through experimental forms. She also explores performative aspects of poetry and its philosophical intersections. Awards include the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2015–2017).