Staff profile

Lynes is an Addison Wheeler Fellow in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He held a 2021-2 Visiting Scholar in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, and held the 2017-8 Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Environmental Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, after earning his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Concordia University in Montréal, Québec in 2016. His research situates itself at the intersections of the environmental humanities, continental philosophy and ecocriticism. Lynes is the author of Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida's General Ecology (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018) and the two-volume Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism, currently under review with Northwestern University Press. He is co-editor (with Matthias Fritsch and David Wood) of Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2018) and (with Timothy Clark) of the Oxford Literary Review special issue What Might Eco-Deconstruction Be? (2023) Lynes is also a translator and editor of French philosophy and literature, notably of the work of Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot, and is an associate editor of the journal Derrida Today. He is currently working on two books, Ecologies of Emptiness, on the Kyoto School, and an introductory book on The Environmental Posthumanities.

• Continental Philosophy
• Deconstruction
• Ecocriticism
• Environmental Humanities
• Environmental Philosophy
• French Literature
• New Materialism
• Posthumanism
• Speculative Realism

Authored book

• Lynes, P. Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism. 2 vols. Volume I: The Nothing & Nothingness and Volume II: Art & Dwelling. Northwestern University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication
• Lynes, P. (2018). Futures of Life Death on Earth: Derrida's General Ecology. Rowman & Littlefield

Chapter in book

• Fritsch, M., & Lynes, P. (in press). Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004). In N. D. W. (ed.), & T. T. (ed.) (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. Springer Verlag
• Derrida, J. “Eyespot as Not One” (with Ellie Anderson), “Form and Fashion,” “Little Alexandrine Flight (Towards You),” “Prière d’insérer,” “Questions to Jacques Derrida” (with Ellie Anderson), “Thinking the Event” and “With Levinas.". In G. B. (ed.), & K. S. (ed.) (Eds.), Thinking What Comes Volume 1: Essays and Interventions and Volume 2: Interviews and Interruptions. Edinburgh University Press
• Lynes, P. Eco-Deconstruction, or (Post)Humanism of the Other (Nonhuman). In C. T. (ed.), & İ. S. A. (ed.) (Eds.), Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought. Lexington Books
• Lynes, P. (in press). Jacques Derrida. In M. K. (ed.), I. S. (ed.), C. H. (ed.), & A. P. (ed.) (Eds.), The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory. Johns Hopkins University Press
• Fritsch, M., Lynes, P., & Wood, D. (2018). Introduction. In Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (1-26). Fordham University Press
• Lynes, P. (2018). The Posthuman Promise of the Earth. In Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy (101-120). Fordham University Press
• Lynes, P. (2017). Auparadvances. In Advances (ix-xlvii). University of Minnesota Press

Edited book

• Fritsch, M. (., Lynes, P. (., & Wood, D. (. (Eds.). (2018). Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy. Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt201mp8w

Journal Article

• Crépon, M. (2023). The Unconditional Condition of Peace [P. Lynes, trans.]. Derrida Today, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/drt.2023.0301
• Clark, T., & Lynes, P. (2023). Introduction: What Might Eco-Deconstruction Be?. Oxford Literary Review, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2023.0400
• Lynes, P. (2020). Domestic Violence and Metaphysics. Derrida Today, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.3366/drt.2020.0235
• Lynes, P. (2020). World, Earth, Planet: A Time and Place for Nihilation in Ecocriticism. https://doi.org/10.19205/58.20.3
• Lynes, P. (2019). After Biodeconstruction in the Neganthropocene. CR: The New Centennial Review, 19(3), 65-98
• Lynes, P. (2019). The Imagination. Philosophy Today: An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy, 63(4), 943-957. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday202019303
• Lynes, P. (2019). Extinction and Thalassal Regression. Oxford Literary Review, 41(1), 107-126. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2019.0268
• Lynes, P. (2016). Is it Ecologically Just to Be? Anti-Natalism in Eco-Deconstruction. Oxford Literary Review, 38(1), 99-126. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2016.0182
• Derrida, J., Ben-Naftali, M., Anderson, E. (., & Lynes, P. (. (2016). Abraham's Melancholy. Oxford Literary Review, 39(2), 153-188

Scholarly Edition

• Blanchot, M., (ed.), L. H., & (ed.), P. L. (2022). Thomas le Solitaire
• Margel, S., & Lynes, P. (. (2019). The Tomb of the Artisan God
• Derrida, J., & Lynes, P. (. (2017). Advances