Lawrence D. Kritzman
Lawrence D. Kritzman, an
Education
Kritzman received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, an M.A. from Middlebury College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.[2]
Writing
His books include Destruction/Decouverte: le fonctionnement de la rhetorique dans les Essais de Montaigne,[3] The Rhetoric of Sexuality and the Literature of the French Renaissance,[4] and The Fabulous Imagination: On Montaigne's Essays.[5] His book Death Sentences: Loss in Post-War French Writing is forthcoming. Kritzman has also penned articles for Le Monde.
Editing
He has edited Fragments: Incompletion and Discontinuity;[6] France under Mitterrand;[7] Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture;[8] Le Signe et le texte;[9] Sans autre guide;[10] Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture and the Jewish Question in France;[11] Pierre Nora's Realms of Memory;[12] and Julia Kristeva's Passions of Our Time.[13]
As editor of European Perspectives, a series in social philosophy and cultural criticism from Columbia University Press, he has served as a cultural ambassador between Europe and the United States and has published authors such as Adorno, Althusser, Barthes, Baudrillard, Baumann, Bourdieu, Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida, Ginzburg, Kristeva, and Vattimo. He serves on more than ten editorial boards in fields such as Renaissance and contemporary literatures, French society and politics, and theory and cultural studies.
His most recent editorial venture, the Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, was the winner of the 2006 Modern Language Association Scalgione Prize for the best book in French. This work also received awards from the Independent Publishers Association and the Ray and Pat Brown Foundation.
Interviews and consultation
Frequently consulted on both sides of the Atlantic on French culture, politics, and intellectual life, Kritzman has been interviewed by Le Figaro, Télérama, Radio France, Liberation, Le Monde, La Stampa, The International New York Times, Newsweek, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Boston Globe, and National Public Radio.
Honors
In 1990, the
In 2012, he was named to the
Institutes
Kritzman is founder and director of the Institute of French Cultural Studies.[17] The major goal of the Institute of French Cultural Studies is to allow advanced graduate students and assistant professors in French to partake in contemporary cultural debates on both sides of the Atlantic and to prepare them to supplement the programmatic needs of French departments in developing courses in interdisciplinary studies taught in French.
He also heads the Institute for European Studies at Dartmouth. In the past, he has taught at
References
- ^ "Lawrence D. Kritzman". Dartmouth College. April 2, 2013. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
- ^ "Faculty Directory: Lawrence D. Kritzman". Dartmouth College. Dartmouth College.
- ^ Kritzman, Lawrence D., Deconstruction/découverte : le fonctionnement de la rhétorique dans les « Essais » de Montaigne, French Forum, Lexington, 1980
- ^ Kritzman, Lawrence D., The Rhetoric of sexuality and the literature of the French Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1990
- ^ Kritzman, Lawrence D., The Fabulous Imagination, Columbia University Press, New York, 2009
- ^ Fragments: incompletion and Discontinuity, edition by Lawrence D. Kritzman and Jeanine Parisier Plottel, New York Literary Forum, New York, 1981
- ^ France under Mitterrand, edition by Lawrence Kritzman, Contemporary French Civilization, vo. 8, n° 1-2, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 1983-1984
- ^ Foucault, Michel, Politics, Philosophy, Culture: interviews and other writings, 1977-1984, translated by Alan Sheridan and others ; edition with an introduction by Lawrence D. Kritzman, Routledge, New York, 1988
- ^ Le Signe et le texte: études sur l’écriture au XVIe siècle en France, edition by Lawrence D. Kritzman, French Forum, Lexington, 1990
- ^ Sans autre guide: Mélanges de littérature française de la Renaissance offers à Marcel Tetel, edition by Philippe Desan, Lawrence D. Kritzman, and Michel Simonin, Klincksieck, 1999
- ^ Auschwitz and after: race, culture, and "the question juive" in France, edition by Lawrence D. Kritzsman, Routledge, New York, 1995
- ^ Les Lieux de mémoire, 3 vol., under the dir. of Pierre Nora, Gallimard, 1986-1992 (English language edition edited and with a foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Columbia University Press, New York, 1996-1998)
- ^ Pulsions du temps, foreword, edition and notes by David Uhrig, Fayard, Paris, 2013 (English language edition edited and with a foreword by Lawrence D. Kritzman, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Columbia University Press, New York, 2019)
- ^ https://frandit.dartmouth.edu/news/2018/06/professor-kritzman-commander-order-academic-palms
- ^ "Lawrence Kritzman's Award Ceremony: Speech by the Ambassador of France in the United States, Mr. François Delattre New York, April 5, 2012". Embassy of France in Washington. April 10, 2012. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014.
- ^ Seaman, Kelly Sundberg (February 22, 2012). "Dartmouth Professor Granted France's Top Award, the Legion d'Honneur". Dartmouth College. Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
- ^ "Institute of French Cultural Studies".
- "France bestows Order of Merit on Kritzman". Dartmouth College. September 15, 2000. Archived from the original on January 24, 2003.
- "New institute to consider Europe's changing economy, culture". Office of Public Affairs at Dartmouth College. September 15, 2000. Archived from the original on May 7, 2003.
- "Lawrence D. Kritzman". Dartmouth Faculty Directory. Archived from the original on November 15, 2007.