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Steven Ungar

Professor
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W225 Adler Journalism Bldg.
335-1452

Curriculum Vitae

Steven Ungar has taught French literature, thought, and film at The University of Iowa since 1976. His book-length publications include Roland Barthes: The Professor of Desire (1983), Scandal and Aftereffect: Blanchot and France Since 1930 (1995), Popular Front Paris and the Poetics of Culture (2005, with Dudley Andrew), and Cléo de 5 à 7 (2008). Ungar’s current research project, Making Waves, is a study of postwar French documentaries between 1946 and1967. Shorter projects in progress include an article on portraits of collaborators, Fascists, and Nazis in the writings of Jonathan Littell, Didier Daeninckx, and Klaus Theweleit.

In spring 2010, Ungar will teach a graduate seminar on everyday life in word and image. Readings in French and in English will encourage students within and outside French & Italian to enroll.

RECENT & FORTHCOMING ARTICLES:

“Jean Vigo, L’Atalante, and the Promise of Social Cinema,” Historical Reflections/
Réflexions Historiques, 35, no. 2 (2009), 63-83.

“Kundera’s Variations: Passing Thoughts on Novel and Nation,” South Central Review,
25, no. 2 (summer 2008), 57-67.

“Modiano and Sebald: Walking in Another’s Footsteps,” Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-first
Century Literature, 31, no. 2 (2007), 378-402.