Florence Lacaze Gould Professor of French Literature; Professor of French, Comparative Literature; Director, Center for French Civilization and Culture
Ph.D., California (Berkeley); M.A., Maryland; B.A., New York

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Research Interests:

Contemporary theatre and novel, avant-garde movements, cultural history

Fellowships/Honors:

Grand Prix de l´Académie Française; Prix Beaumarchais, SACD (Société des Auteurs et des Compositeurs Dramatiques), Fulbright Senior Research Scholar; National Endowment for the Humanities, French Government, French-American Foundation, and Florence Gould Foundation grants; OBIE Award for achievement in Off-Broadway Theatre; Officier, Légion d'Honneur; Commandeur, Ordre National du Mérite; Officier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres; Officier, Palmes Académiques; Director of NEH Summer Seminars, 1977,1979,1982, 1985.

Selected Works:

From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel (New York University Press, 1997).

Le Passeur d´océan: carnets d´un ami américain (Payot, 1989).

Huis Clos de Sartre (Hachette, 1975).

Pirandello and the French Theater (New York University, 1960, 1970).

Situating / Situation de Sartre 2005, ed. (New York University, 2007).

Beckett 100, ed. (New York University, 2007).

Remembering Roland Barthes...20 Years Later, ed. (New York University, 2003).

Samuel Beckett, ed. with R. Federman (L´Herne, 1976; Livre de Poche, 1985).

L´Avant-Garde Théâtrale: French Theater Since 1950, ed. (New York University Press, 1975)

Les antiaméricanismes, ed. (New York University, 2001).

L'Amérique des Français, ed. with C. Fauré, (François Bourin, 1992).

Classiques d'aujourd'hui, general editor (Gallimard, 1986 -1989).

Littérature et culture françaises, general editor, Films for the Humanities.

“Into the Labyrinth” Artforum, Summer 2008. 383-395, 466-468.

“Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?”, Yale French Studies, 112; 7-13, 2007

“ ‘Heavenly Father, the Creature Was Bilingual.’ How Beckett Switched to French” Beckett 100, 2006. 30-42.

-"Situating Sartre's Theater of Situations"  Situating/Situation de Sartre 2005, 2007,  170-180.

“Beckett de l’anglais au français”  Présence de Samuel Beckett / Presence of Samuel Beckett, 2006.  99-108.

“Theater and Theory” The Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought, 2006. 340-344.

"Barthes and Un/Popular Theater," Remembering Roland Barthes....20 Years Later, (NYU, 2003), 28-45.

"Staging Beckett in France at the End of the Twentieth Century," Samuel Beckett: Endlessness in the Year 2000 (Fin sans fin en l'an 2000), A. Moorjani & C. Veit, eds.(Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002), 42-47.

"Topologie d'une reprise ou le retour de Robbe-Grillet," Critique, 651-652 (2001), 595-604.

"La Vie errante: les tournées de la compagnie Renaud-Barrault," Renaud-Barrault (Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1999).

"François Mitterrand et les Etats-Unis," François Mitterrand – Paix et développement (UNESCO, 1998).

"Theater and the Everyday in France: Le Théâtre du Quotidien," The Art of the Everyday. The Quotidian in Postwar French Culture, Lynn Gumpert, ed. (NYU Press, 1997).

France and the Need for Cultural Exception," Journal of International Law and Politics, 29, 1-2 (1996-97).

"I Love You, Moi Non Plus," SubStance, 76/77 (1995).

"Le Théâtre sorti de l'ombre," French Cultural Studies (1994).

“Jean Genet's Play Les Nègres is Performed in Paris. The Theater of the Absurd,” A New History of French Literature, D.Hollier, ed. (Harvard U. Press, 1989; Bordas, 1993).

"Transpositions pour la télévision: transmutations des œuvres de Beckett," Samuel Beckett (Privat, Revue d'Esthétique, 1986).

"Blin on Beckett," On Beckett: Essays and Criticism, (Grove Press, 1986).

"The Temptation of Silence," As No Other Dare Fail (Riverrun, 1986).

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