Gilbert Chaitin

Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature

Education

A.B. Princeton University, NJ, 1962
M.A. Princeton University, NJ, 1965
Ph.D. Princeton University, NJ, 1969

Major Grants

• NEH Fellowship, twice
• Member, School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

Courses Taught Recently

• F300 "Reading and Expression in French"
• F564/C504 "Issues in Literary Theory"
• F647/C602 "Contemporary Theory and Criticism"
• F544 "Le Roman au Dix-Neuvième Siècle II"
• C335/535 "Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism" (European literature)
• "Dreams in Literature and in Life," a freshman TOPICS course on dreams in the western tradition
• F305 "Théâtre et Essai"
• F306 "Roman et Poésie"
• Graduate seminars on thinkers such as Lacan, Derrida, Irigaray and Foucault, double-listed in FRIT and CMLT

Current Research Interests

Romance languages and literature; French literature; 19th-century European fiction; psychoanalysis and literature; influence of politics on literature; education, literature and national identity.

Recent Publications

• “‘France is my mother’”: The Subject of Universal Education in the French Third Republic,” forthcoming.
• “Images, Identity and Politics in the affaire Dreyfus: Barrès and France,” forthcoming.
• “Nationalist Ext(im)asy: Maurice Barrès and the Roots of Fascist Enjoyment,” forthcoming.
• “Sand and the Politics of the Thesis Novel: Mademoiselle la Quintinie’s Evil Empires,” forthcoming.
• "Transposing the Dreyfus Affair: The Trauma of identity in Zola's Vérité," Australian Journal of French Studies 38.3 (September-December 2001): 430-444
• "The Enlightenment and Beyond: Kant and the Dilemma of Cultural Theory Today," Act 1-Sublime Traduçao, Eds. Helena Carvalhão Buescu and João Ferreira Duarte (Lisbon: Colibri, 2000), 29-58
• "Lacan with Adorno? The Question of Fascist Rationalism." Future Crossings: Literature between Philosophy and Cultural Studies. Editors, Seamus Deane & Krzysztof Ziarek. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2000, 221-248
• "From the Third Republic to Postmodernism: Language, Freedom, and the Politics of the Contingent, MLN 114.4 (September 1999): 780-81
• "Listening Power: Flaubert, Zola and the Politics of Style Indirect Libre." French Review, Vol. 72 No. 6, May 1999: 1023-1037
• Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan. London: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Overseas Experience

France

• Resident Director, Academic Program in Aix-en-Provence, Universities of Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana (2002-2003)
• Faculty Associate, Institute for the International Education of Students, Paris (1998-1999)
• Resident Director, Indiana University-Purdue University Overseas Study Program, Strasbourg (1993-1994) and (1980-1981)
• Visiting Professor, University of Bordeau at Pau (1970-1971)
• Alliance Française Fellow, Université de Paris (1962-63)
• Sweet Briar Junior Exchange Year (1960-61)

Portugal

• Portugal: Exchange Professor, Universidade de Lisboa, Spring 1997

Last updated: July 14, 2004
Comments: Nancy Stoute
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