Dr Andrew Sackin-Poll
Position
Director of Studies in Modern Languages and College Teaching Associate in French at Downing College.
Degrees
BA, MPhil, PhD
Research Interests
My research interests are diverse but they are held together by a fundamental interest in the shifts in various new forms of realism in contemporary philosophy, poetry, and literature. These shifts will be explored in my new book series, Contemporary Realisms, with Bloomsbury. I am interested in French intellectual history, particularly the legacy of French Spiritualist Realism (Pierre Maine de Biran, F茅lix Ravaisson, and Louis Lavelle) and the influence of S酶ren Kierkegaard on contemporary French philosophy. How Kierkegaard鈥檚 work has shaped French thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is explored in Kierkegaard in France (Brill, 2025), co-edited with Dr Hj枚rdis Becker. I have a critical interest in the relationship between philosophy and literature. My current book project, The Epic Voice (Liverpool University Press, 2026), brings these interests together to trace the emergence of a new voice or mode of enunciation in contemporary Francophone fiction. It revises the legacy of logics of transgression and displacement that typify postmodern fiction, pointing toward novel modes of 鈥渆pi-fiction鈥� that have emerged in recent decades.
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In addition to my research, I am a translator, currently working on my first poetry translation, B茅atrice Bonhomme鈥檚 Monde, Genoux couronn茅s. I am also just starting to put together an anthology of Sandra Moussemp猫s鈥� poems.
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I continue to translate philosophical and theological works by contemporary French writers and thinkers, including Olivier Boulnois, Emmanuel Falque, and Fran莽ois Laruelle.听
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As part of my commitment to translation as a practice and mode of exchange, I am part of the organising committee for the 密桃视频 Translation Studies Network (CTSN): /centres/cambridge-translation-network
Teaching
I teach translation (FrB2 and FrC1) and supervise scheduled papers in literature, poetry, and film (Fr1, Fr6, and Fr12) in Modern Languages. I also supervise topics in metaphysics for scheduled papers in philosophy of religion (B10 and C11) in Divinity.
Selected Publications
The Epic Voice in French and Francophone Literature: Authority, Affect, and Memory (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming 2026).
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鈥淭ranslating Patrick Chamoiseau and 脡douard Glissant鈥� in Translation from French into English, ed. by Christophe Gagne & Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde (Routledge, forthcoming 2026).
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Kierkegaard in France (Studies in the History of Western Philosophy), co-edited with Hj枚rdis Becker-Lindenthal (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2025).
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鈥淭he Relief of Writing鈥� in To Die of Not Writing: Doing Philosophy of Religion with Emmanuel Falque, ed. by Pablo Irizar and Martin Ko膷i (Eugene: Wipf and Stock, forthcoming 2025).
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鈥淭he Ordinary Contested: Laruelle contra Deleuze鈥澨� in Paragraph vol 44, no 2 (2021).
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