Professor Saghafi (PhD, DePaul University, Chicago) joined the faculty in 2006. He researches and teaches in contemporary Continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, and aesthetics. He is the author of Apparitions-Of Derrida’s Other (Fordham University Press, 2010) and the co-editor of a memorial issue of Epoché devoted to Jacques Derrida (2006). He has also published articles on contemporary French thought in journals such as Bulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française, International Studies in Philosophy, Mosaic, Philosophy Today, and Research in Phenomenology. Co-translator of Derrida’s “A Europe of Hope” and “Aletheia,” Dr. Saghafi is a regular participant in the Derrida Seminars Translation Project, held annually at the IMEC archives in Normandy, France. He also serves as the Book Reviews Editor for the Oxford Literary Review.

Dr. Saghafi was a Visiting Professor at the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University in Australia. Previously, he held an Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship at Grinnell College, where he offered courses in philosophy and the humanities. While earning his doctorate, he was awarded a Chateaubriand dissertation research grant from the French government.

Currently, Dr. Saghafi is working on two manuscripts tentatively titled "Revolutionary Derrida" and "Marvelous Blanchot: Between Derrida and Nancy."

Dr. Saghafi serves as the Director of Graduate Studies.

“Incurable Haunting: Saluting Michel Deguy,” Oxford Literary Review 33.2 (2011), forthcoming.

“‘A Certain Spirit of a Certain Marx’: Blanchot’s Revolutionary Return in Specters of Marx” Philosophy Today, Supplement, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy 55: 5 (2011), forthcoming.

“Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003),” Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, eds. Leonard Lawlor and John Nale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), forthcoming.

“The Chase: Rivalry and Conjuration,” Parallax 58 (January-March 2011): 33-41.

“Let’s Not Forget the Wolves,” “The Political Animal” Conference, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle, WA (October 2011).

“A Death Blow to Death,” Derrida Seminars Translation Project, IMEC, Caen, France, (July 2011).

"A Certain Spirit of A Certain Marx: Blanchot’s Revolutionary Return in Specters of Marx," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Montreal (November 6, 2010).

"Thomas : Lazarus : : Blanchot : Nancy," "Blanchot: The Philosopher's Philosopher," special session of the Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française (SAPLF) at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Montreal (November 6, 2010).

"The Chase: Rivalry and Conjuration," 2nd Derrida Today Conference, Goodenough College, London (July 21, 2010).

"Derrida, Blanchot, and 'Living Death'," Derrida Seminars Translation Workshop, IMEC, Caen, France (July 8, 2010).