Lawrence D. Kritzman
Professor
Appointments
Pat and John Rosenwald Research Professor in the Arts and Sciences
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Edward Tuck Professorship in the French Language and Literature
Director, Institute of French Cultural Studies
Area of Expertise
Critical Theory, especially literary and cultural semiotics and psychoanalysis,
Jewish Studies,
16th century French literature and culture,
French intellectual and cultural history,
20th century European philosophy,
literature and culture of the European Renaissance
Education
B.A. University of Wisconsin
M.A. Middlebury College
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Publications
The Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought , (Editor and contributor), (2006).
"The Socratic Makeover and the Ethics of the Impossible," in L'Esprit créateur , (Winter 2006).
The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance , (1991; paperback 1994).
"Remembrance of Things Past: Trauma and Mourning in Perec's W ou le souvenir d'enfance," Journal of European Studies , (Spring 2005).
Works in Progress
The Fabulous Imagination: The Mind's Eye in Montaigne's Essays
"Jacques's Complaint: Derrida, Mortality and the Maternal"
"Sartre and the Rhetoric of Masculinity;" Roland Barthes
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