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Peggy KamufMarion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature and EnglishDirector Contact Information E-mail: kamuf@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-0101 Office: THH 278 LINKS Order Books by Peggy Kamuf Order Books by Peggy Kamuf |
Education |
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 Ph.D. French, Cornell University, 8/1975
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Tenure Track Appointments |
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Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 01/01/2001-
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Professor of French, University of Southern California, 09/01/1988-
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Visiting and Temporary Appointments |
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Visiting Professor, Centre d'Etudes Feminines, Universite de Paris VIII, St. Denis-Vincennes,
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2006
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Visiting Professor, Centre d'Etudes Feminines, Universite de Paris VIII, St. Denis-Vincennes,
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1998
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Other Employment |
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Distinguished International Fellow, London Graduate School, 2010-
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Directeur de Programme Correspondant, Collège International de Philosophie, 01/09/1989-08/31/1995
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| Peggy Kamuf’s principal research interests are in literary theory and contemporary French thought and literature. She has written extensively on the work of Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and has also translated a number of their texts. Her earlier work was on 18th-century French fictions of the feminine (Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise [1982]), the signature and authorship, especially in Rousseau, but as well Stendhal, Baudelaire, and V. Woolf (Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship [1988]), and the institutionalization of literary studies, specifically in France (The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction [1997]). More recently, Book of Addresses (2005) gathers essays on fictionality, sexual difference, psychoanalysis, and literary theory around the figure of the address of speech and writing and To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida (2010) collects ten years of her writings on Derrida. She has also edited several collections of work by Derrida: A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds (1991), Without Alibi (2002), and Psyche: Inventions of the Other (2007). She is a co-editor of the series The Seminars of Jacques Derrida at University of Chicago Press and is a member of the editorial board of Oxford Literary Review. | |
Funded Research |
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Contracts and Grants Awarded |
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The Essential Humanities (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), Peggy Kamuf, $188,622, 2010-2012
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Translation of the Seminars of Jacques Derrida (National Endowment for the Humanities), Peggy Kamuf, Geoffrey Bennington, Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael Naas, Elizabeth Rottenberg, David Wills, $180,000, 07/01/2009-06/30/2012
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Conferences and Other Presentations |
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Conference Presentations |
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""In-Habitation: Of Grammatology as Habitography"", Derrida Today, Keynote Lecture, Paper, London, England, Kingston University, Invited, 2010-2011
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""Passing Strange: The Laws of Translation"", Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Keynote Lecture, Paper, Philadelphia, PA, MLA/ Presidential Forum, Invited, 2009-2010
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Publications |
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Book |
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Kamuf, P. `.
(2010).
To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. http://www.euppublishing.com/
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Kamuf, P. `., Cixous, H.
(2009).
So Close. London: Polity Press.
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Derrida, J., Kamuf (ed.), P., Rottenberb (ed.), E.
(2008).
Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Vol. 2. 333. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP.
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Derrida, J., Kamuf, P., Rottenberg (ed.), E.
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Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Vol. 1. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP.
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 Kamuf, P.
(2005).
Book of Addresses. Stanford University Press.
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Derrida, J., Kamuf, P.
(2002).
Without Alibi. Stanford, CA: Jacques Derrida, Without Alibi (ed. P. Kamuf)/Stanford University Press.
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 Kamuf, P.
(1997).
The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction. University of Chicago Press.
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Kamuf, P.
(1991).
A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds.
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Kamuf, P.
(1988).
Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship. Cornell University Press.
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Kamuf, P.
(1982).
Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise. University of Nebraska Pres.
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Book Chapter |
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Kamuf, P.
(2008).
"The Affect of America" in Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy. pp. 138-50. Routledge.
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Kamuf, P.
(2007).
"Aller à la ligne".
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Kamuf, P.
(2005).
“‘J’ Is for Just a Minute: It’s Miller Time When It Shimmers,”. pp. p. 197-209. New York: Provocations to Reading:J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy To Come/Fordham University Press.
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Kamuf, P.
(2004).
"Venir aux débuts". pp. p.329-334. Paris, France: Cahier de l'Herne: Jacques Derrida/Cahier de l'Herne.
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Kamuf, P.
(2004).
"Signé Paine, ou la panique dans les lettres". pp. p.19-35. Paris, France: La Démocratie à venir: Autour de Jacques Derrida/Editions Galilée.
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Kamuf, P., Wolfreys, J.
(2004).
"Symptoms of Response: An Interview with Peggy Kamuf". pp. 20-32. Thinking Difference: Critics in Conversation, Fordham University Press.
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Essay |
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Kamuf, P. `.
(2010).
"The Dawn of the Seminar". pp. 10. http://www.derridaseminars.org/index.html
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Journal Article |
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Kamuf, P.
(2009).
"The Names of War". Oxford Literary Review.
Vol. 31 (2), pp. 231-48.
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Kamuf, P., McCance, D.
(2009).
"Crossings: An Interview with Peggy Kamuf". Mosaic.
Vol. 42 (4), pp. 1-17.
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Kamuf, P.
(2009).
"The Ear Who?". Discourse.
Vol. 30 (1-2), pp. 177-90.
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Kamuf, P.
(2009).
"Signed Paine, or Panic in Literature". Diacritics.
Vol. 38 (1-2), pp. 30-43.
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Kamuf, P.
(2009).
"Bowing to Necessity in the Idiom of Rodolphe Gasché". New Centennial Review.
Vol. 8 (3), pp. 85-105.
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Kamuf, P.
(2007).
"To Do Justice to 'Rousseau,' Irreducibly". Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Vol. 40 (3), pp. 395-404.
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Kamuf, P.
(2007).
"Accounterability". Textual Practice.
Vol. 21 (2), pp. 251-66.
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Kamuf, P.
(2007).
"Deconstruction". Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.
Vol. 15, pp. 1-20.
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Kamuf, P.
(2006).
"Afterburn: An Afterword to ‘The Flying Manuscript,’". New Literary History.
Vol. 37 (1), pp. 47-55.
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Kamuf, P.
(2006).
"From Now On,". Epoché.
Vol. 10 (2), pp. 203-20..
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Kamuf, P.
(2006).
"Deconstruction,". Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.
Vol. 14, pp. pp. 1-18..
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Kamuf, P.
(2006).
"Composition Displacement". MLN.
Vol. 121, pp. 872-92.
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Kamuf, P.
(2005).
"To Follow". Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.
Vol. 16, pp. 3 (Fall 2005).
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Kamuf, P.
(2004).
"Peace Keeping the Other War". Revue de Littérature Comparée.
Vol. 312 (Oct.-Dec. 2004), pp. pp. 445-65.
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Kamuf, P.
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"L'autre différence sexuelle". Europe: Revue littéraire mensuelle.
Vol. May 2004, pp. pp. 163-90.
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Kamuf, P.
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"Traduire dans l'urgence". Le Magazine littéraire.
Vol. 430 (April 2004), pp. p. 49.
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Kamuf, P.
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"The University in the World It Is Attempting To Think". Culture Machine (Web Journal).
Vol. 6 (2004)
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Honors and Awards |
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USC Endowed Professorship, Marion Frances Chevalier Professor in French, 9/1/2001-
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Book Prize, American Comparative Literature Association, 2005-2006
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USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 1995
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Service to the Profession |
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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Series co-editor, The Seminars of Jacques Derrida/ University of Chicago Press, 01/2008-
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Editor, volume 31, number 2, "The Word of War", Oxford Literary Review, 2008-2009
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