Tom Bishop (1929-2022)

Ph.D., California (Berkeley); M.A., Maryland; B.A., New York

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

BOOKS

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)


BOOKS EDITED

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

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

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


In the series The Florence Gould Lectures at New York University :

Camus Now, 2011

Land of Refuge, Land of Exile: French Writers and Artists in the U.S. During the Occupation Years, 2010

Simone de Beauvoir, Centennial Conference, 2009

Beckett 100, 2007

Situating / Situation de Sartre 2005, 2007

Remembering Roland Barthes...20 Years Later, 2003

Les antiaméricanismes, 2001


CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

“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

"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

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

"François Mitterrand et les États-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)

“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)

“Vingt ans de théâtre à Paris,” Paris-Paris 1937-1957, Centre Pompidou, 1981

“ ‘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

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


SELECTED ARTICLES

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

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

"Topologie d'une reprise ou le retour de Robbe-Grillet," Critique, 651-52, 2001, 595-604

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

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

 

In Memoriam