University of Southern California
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Peggy Kamuf

Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Professor of Comparative Literature and English
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Contact Information
E-mail: kamuf@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-0101
Office: THH 278

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Education

  • Ph.D. French, Cornell University, 8/1975

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Tenure Track Appointments
  • Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 01/01/2001-  
  • Professor of French, University of Southern California, 09/01/1988-  
Visiting and Temporary Appointments
  • Visiting Professor, Centre d'Etudes Feminines, Universite de Paris VIII, St. Denis-Vincennes, Spring 2006   
  • Visiting Professor, Centre d'Etudes Feminines, Universite de Paris VIII, St. Denis-Vincennes, Spring 1998   
Other Employment
  • Distinguished International Fellow, London Graduate School, 2010-  
  • Directeur de Programme Correspondant, Collège International de Philosophie, 01/09/1989-08/31/1995  

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
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

Contracts and Grants Awarded
  • The Essential Humanities (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), Peggy Kamuf, $188,622, 2010-2012  
  • 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  

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations
  • ""In-Habitation: Of Grammatology as Habitography"", Derrida Today, Keynote Lecture, Paper, London, England, Kingston University, Invited, 2010-2011   
  • ""Passing Strange: The Laws of Translation"", Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Keynote Lecture, Paper, Philadelphia, PA, MLA/ Presidential Forum, Invited, 2009-2010   

Publications

Book
  • Kamuf, P. `. (2010). To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. http://www.euppublishing.com/
  • Kamuf, P. `., Cixous, H. (2009). So Close. London: Polity Press.
  • Derrida, J., Kamuf (ed.), P., Rottenberb (ed.), E. (2008). Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Vol. 2. 333. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP.
  • Derrida, J., Kamuf, P., Rottenberg (ed.), E. (2007). Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Vol. 1. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP.
  • Kamuf, P. (2005). Book of Addresses. Stanford University Press.
  • Derrida, J., Kamuf, P. (2002). Without Alibi. Stanford, CA: Jacques Derrida, Without Alibi (ed. P. Kamuf)/Stanford University Press.
  • Kamuf, P. (1997). The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction. University of Chicago Press.
  • Kamuf, P. (1991). A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds.
  • Kamuf, P. (1988). Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship. Cornell University Press.
  • Kamuf, P. (1982). Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise. University of Nebraska Pres.
Book Chapter
  • Kamuf, P. (2008). "The Affect of America" in Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy. pp. 138-50. Routledge.
  • Kamuf, P. (2007). "Aller à la ligne".
  • 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.
  • Kamuf, P. (2004). "Venir aux débuts". pp. p.329-334. Paris, France: Cahier de l'Herne: Jacques Derrida/Cahier de l'Herne.
  • 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.
  • Kamuf, P., Wolfreys, J. (2004). "Symptoms of Response: An Interview with Peggy Kamuf". pp. 20-32. Thinking Difference: Critics in Conversation, Fordham University Press.
Essay
Journal Article
  • Kamuf, P. (2009). "The Names of War". Oxford Literary Review. Vol. 31 (2), pp. 231-48.
  • Kamuf, P., McCance, D. (2009). "Crossings: An Interview with Peggy Kamuf". Mosaic. Vol. 42 (4), pp. 1-17.
  • Kamuf, P. (2009). "The Ear Who?". Discourse. Vol. 30 (1-2), pp. 177-90.
  • Kamuf, P. (2009). "Signed Paine, or Panic in Literature". Diacritics. Vol. 38 (1-2), pp. 30-43.
  • Kamuf, P. (2009). "Bowing to Necessity in the Idiom of Rodolphe Gasché". New Centennial Review. Vol. 8 (3), pp. 85-105.
  • Kamuf, P. (2007). "To Do Justice to 'Rousseau,' Irreducibly". Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vol. 40 (3), pp. 395-404.
  • Kamuf, P. (2007). "Accounterability". Textual Practice. Vol. 21 (2), pp. 251-66.
  • Kamuf, P. (2007). "Deconstruction". Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Vol. 15, pp. 1-20.
  • Kamuf, P. (2006). "Afterburn: An Afterword to ‘The Flying Manuscript,’". New Literary History. Vol. 37 (1), pp. 47-55.
  • Kamuf, P. (2006). "From Now On,". Epoché. Vol. 10 (2), pp. 203-20..
  • Kamuf, P. (2006). "Deconstruction,". Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory. Vol. 14, pp. pp. 1-18..
  • Kamuf, P. (2006). "Composition Displacement". MLN. Vol. 121, pp. 872-92.
  • Kamuf, P. (2005). "To Follow". Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Vol. 16, pp. 3 (Fall 2005).
  • Kamuf, P. (2004). "Peace Keeping the Other War". Revue de Littérature Comparée. Vol. 312 (Oct.-Dec. 2004), pp. pp. 445-65.
  • Kamuf, P. (2004). "L'autre différence sexuelle". Europe: Revue littéraire mensuelle. Vol. May 2004, pp. pp. 163-90.
  • Kamuf, P. (2004). "Traduire dans l'urgence". Le Magazine littéraire. Vol. 430 (April 2004), pp. p. 49.
  • Kamuf, P. (2004). "The University in the World It Is Attempting To Think". Culture Machine (Web Journal). Vol. 6 (2004)


Honors and Awards

  • USC Endowed Professorship, Marion Frances Chevalier Professor in French, 9/1/2001-  
  • Book Prize, American Comparative Literature Association, 2005-2006   
  • USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 1995  

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
  • Series co-editor, The Seminars of Jacques Derrida/ University of Chicago Press, 01/2008-  
  • Editor, volume 31, number 2, "The Word of War", Oxford Literary Review, 2008-2009   


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