Staff profile
Dr Sarah Hickmott
Assistant Professor / / Deputy Director of UG Education (Curriculum Development)
BA (Cambs), MA (KCL), DPhil (Oxon)

Affiliation | Room number | Telephone |
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Assistant Professor / / Deputy Director of UG Education (Curriculum Development) in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures | A55, Elvet Riverside I | +44 (0) 191 33 43451 |
Biography
I studied Music at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, before completing an MA in Critical Methodologies at KCL and a DPhil in contemporary French thought at Oxford. I also spent a year teaching at the ENS de Lyon and a further three years in Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College before coming to Durham in 2018/19.
Research Interests
My research focuses broadly on the relationship between contemporary French thought and ecological/environmental, social, cultural and political concerns. My first book, Music, Philosophy and Gender in Contemporary French Thought: Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press, 2020) explores the way music has been used, understood, or characterised in recent French thought.
I have a special interest in the following areas:
- Twentieth- and twenty-first-century French thought, with a particular focus on its characterisation, use and understanding of music
- Interdisciplinary and intermedial exchanges (for example, the use of musical and/or musicological concepts in philosophy or the representation of music in visual arts)
- Organs (bodily, technological/prosthetic/instrumental, and forms of social organisation) in recent French thought
- Feminist and queer thought
Publications
Authored book
- Hickmott, Sarah (2020). Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Book review
Chapter in book
- Hickmott, Sarah (2021). On Themes and Variations: Music and Literature in Poststructuralism. In The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature. Durkin, Rachael Routledge.
Conference Paper
- Hickmott, Sarah (2017), Sounding the Siren, Sexing the Shipwreck, paper given at Shipwrecks and How to Avoid Them: Seafaring and Writing in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Somerville College, Oxford, Shipwrecks and How to Avoid Them: Seafaring and Writing in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Somerville College, Oxford.
- Hickmott, Sarah (2017), Beyond Lacoue-Labarthe’s Alma Mater: Mus(e)ic, Myth and Modernity, paper given at Modernité du mythe, à partir de Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Trinity College, Dublin, Modernité du mythe, à partir de Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Trinity College, Dublin.
Journal Article