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Featuring Isabelle Alfandary, Université Paris-Est

Co-sponsored with FIG & CLS

Isabelle Alfandary is Professor of American Literature at Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III) and a specialist of modernist American poetry. She is the author of innumerable articles as well as several books, amongst them E. E. Cummings ou la minuscule lyrique (2002); Le risque de la lettre: lectures de la poésie moderniste américaine (2012); and Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan : entre psychanalyse et déconstruction (Forthcoming 2015).

Professor Alfandary has served on the editorial board of journals such as L’Atelier, Rue Descarte, Tropismes and Transatlantica and was Program Director at the prestigious College International de Philosophie in 2013.

This lecture has been possible thanks to the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Buffett Institute.