Kas Saghafi

Kas Saghafi is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis, specializing in contemporary Continental and French philosophy. He holds a PhD from DePaul University (Chicago) and joined the faculty in 2006. His research focuses on Jacques Derrida's work, particularly themes of spectrality, otherness, and mourning, as seen in his books Apparitions—Of Derrida's Other (2010) and The World after the End of the World (2020). He has held prestigious fellowships, including the Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship at Grinnell College and a Chateaubriand Dissertation Grant in Paris.

His current projects include a book manuscript Remains: Jacques Derrida and co-editing volumes of Derrida's untranslated texts with Edinburgh University Press. Saghafi has also contributed to interdisciplinary studies through translated works of Derrida and edited journal issues like Thinking What Remains (2016).

Key research areas include Derrida's engagements with Husserl, Levinas, Blanchot, and Nancy, as well as intersections between philosophy, art, and literature. His articles explore topics such as spectrality in video/photography, ethical otherness, and theopoetic dimensions of Derrida's late work.