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Areas of Research/Interest: Contemporary theatre and novel, avant-garde movements, cultural history Fellowships/Honors: Grand Prix de l´Académie Française; Prix Beaumarchais, SACD (Société des Auteurs et des Compositeurs Dramatiques), Fulbright Senior Research Scholar; National Endowment for the Humanities, French Government, French-American Foundation, and Florence Gould Foundation grants; OBIE Award for achievement in Off-Broadway Theatre; Officier, Légion d'Honneur; Commandeur, Ordre National du Mérite; Officier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres; Officier, Palmes Académiques; Director of NEH Summer Seminars, 1977,1979,1982, 1985.
Select Publications:
From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and
Novel (New York University Press, 1997). Le Passeur d´océan: carnets d´un ami américain (Payot, 1989). Huis Clos de Sartre (Hachette,
1975). Pirandello and the French Theater (New York University, 1960, 1970). Situating /
Situation de Sartre 2005, ed. (New
York University, 2007). Beckett 100, ed. (New York University, 2007). Remembering Roland Barthes...20 Years Later, ed. (New York University, 2003). Samuel Beckett, ed. with
R. Federman (L´Herne, 1976; Livre de Poche, 1985). L´Avant-Garde Théâtrale: French Theater Since 1950, ed. (New York University Press, 1975) Les antiaméricanismes, ed. (New York University, 2001). L'Amérique des Français, ed. with
C. Fauré, (François Bourin, 1992). Classiques d'aujourd'hui,
general editor (Gallimard, 1986 -1989). Littérature et culture françaises, general editor, Films for the Humanities. “Into the Labyrinth” Artforum, Summer 2008. 383-395,
466-468. “Whatever Happened to the
Avant-Garde?”, Yale French Studies,
112; 7-13, 2007 “
‘Heavenly Father, the Creature Was Bilingual.’ How Beckett Switched to French” Beckett 100, 2006. 30-42. -"Situating Sartre's Theater of Situations" Situating/Situation
de Sartre 2005, 2007, 170-180. “Beckett
de l’anglais au français” Présence de Samuel Beckett / Presence of
Samuel Beckett, 2006. 99-108. “Theater and Theory” The
Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought, 2006. 340-344. "Barthes and
Un/Popular Theater," Remembering
Roland Barthes....20 Years Later, (NYU, 2003), 28-45. "Staging Beckett in
France at the End of the Twentieth Century," Samuel Beckett: Endlessness in the Year 2000 (Fin sans fin en l'an
2000), A. Moorjani & C. Veit, eds.(Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi,
2002), 42-47. "Topologie d'une
reprise ou le retour de Robbe-Grillet," Critique, 651-652 (2001), 595-604. "La Vie errante: les
tournées de la compagnie Renaud-Barrault," Renaud-Barrault (Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1999). "François Mitterrand
et les Etats-Unis," François Mitterrand
– Paix et développement (UNESCO, 1998). "Theater and the
Everyday in France: Le Théâtre du Quotidien," The Art of the Everyday. The Quotidian in Postwar French Culture,
Lynn Gumpert, ed. (NYU Press, 1997). France and the Need for
Cultural Exception," Journal of
International Law and Politics, 29, 1-2 (1996-97). "I Love You, Moi Non
Plus," SubStance, 76/77 (1995). "Le Théâtre sorti de
l'ombre," French Cultural Studies
(1994). “Jean Genet's Play Les
Nègres is Performed in Paris. The Theater of the Absurd,” A New History of French Literature, D.Hollier, ed. (Harvard U.
Press, 1989; Bordas, 1993). "Transpositions pour
la télévision: transmutations des œuvres de Beckett," Samuel Beckett (Privat, Revue d'Esthétique, 1986). "Blin on
Beckett," On Beckett: Essays and
Criticism, (Grove Press, 1986). "The Temptation of
Silence," As No Other Dare Fail
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