Éric Trudel
William Frauenfelder Professor in the College and Professor of French; Director, French Studies Program
Academic Program Affiliation(s): Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literatures, French Studies, Human Rights, Literature
Area of Specialization: 20th- and 21st-Century French Literature
Biography:
Professor Trudel is the author of La Terreur à l’œuvre: théorie, poétique et éthique chez Jean Paulhan (Paris, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, coll. “L’imaginaire du texte,” 2007), and of several scholarly articles and volume chapters on 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Literatures. He coedited Poétiques de la liste et imaginaire sériel (Montréal, Nota Bene, 2019), "Tout peut servir." Pratiques et enjeux du détournement dans le discours littéraire des XXe et XXIe siècles (Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2011), Jean Paulhan on Poetry and Politics (Champaign, University of Illinois Press, 2008); and oversaw issues of the journals LHT (Crises de lisibilité, 16, 2016, online), L'Esprit Créateur (“Avant-garde and Arrière-garde in Modernist Literature”, 53/3, 2013; “The Documentary Mode”, 61/2, 2021), and XXI-XX. Reconnaissances littéraires ("Avatars du remake", 4, 2023).BA, Concordia University, Montreal; MA, French literature, McGill University; PhD, Romance languages, Princeton University. At Bard since 2002.
Contact:
Phone: 845-758-7121Website: http://french.bard.edu
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Location: Hopson
Office: 102