Steven Ungar

Professor
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415 English Philosophy Bldg.
335-1452

Curriculum Vitae

Steven Ungar is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature. For French and Italian, he teaches courses on 20th and 21st-century French poetry, fiction, film, and culture. Course topics in French over the past decade have included poetry since Baudelaire, France in the 1930s, New Wave France, and a seminar on the 20th-century Novel. Ungar is currently working with six doctoral students on dissertations in areas including fiction about WWII collaborators, utopian and libratory women's writing, the 1938, France-Madagascar Project, contemporary North African fiction, and the island city. In 2006, the French Ministry of Education named him Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. Recent and forthcoming publications include:

• Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture (Harvard U Press, 2005, with Dudley Andrew)
• "Writing in Tongues: Thoughts on the Work of Translation," in Haun Saussy, ed., Comparative Literature in the Age of Globalization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2006
• "Maurice Blanchot: Literature to the Extreme." In Lawrence D. Kritzman, ed., The Columbia Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century French Thought. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2006
• "Modiano and Sebald: Walking in Another's Footsteps," Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature, 31, no. 2 (2007)
• "Whose Voice? Whose Film?: Jean Rouch, Oumarou Ganda, and Moi, un Noir," in Joram Ten Brink, ed., Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch (2007)

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