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Curriculum Vitae Peggy Kamuf Kamuf Vita, 1 CURRICULUM VITAE PEGGY KAMUF Department of French and Italian University of Southern California University Park Los Angeles, CA 90089-0359 Tel.: 213-740-0101 Fax : 213-740-8058 email: [email protected] • EDUCATION B.A., French and English, Bucknell University, 1969 Ph.D., Romance Studies, Cornell University, 1975 • UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS 1975-80: Assistant Professor of French, Miami University. 1980-88: Associate Professor of French, Miami University. 1987-88: Visiting Associate Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego 1988- : Professor of French, University of Southern California 1989-95: Directeur de Programme Correspondant, Collège International de Philosophie (concurrent appointment) 1991- : Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Southern California (joint appointment) 1998: Visiting Professor, Centre d’Etudes Féminines, Université de Paris 8, Vincennes- St. Denis 2001-2003: Guest Professor, Department of French, University of Nottingham, England 2001- Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French, University of Southern California (named professorship) 2006: Visiting Professor, Centre d’Etudes Féminines, Université de Paris 8, Vincennes- St. Denis 2010- Distinguished International Fellow, London Graduate School, London, England 2015- Distinguished Visting Professor, Kingston University, London, England • GRANTS AND HONORS 1976: Sigma Chi Foundation Grant, Miami University 1978: American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellowship 1980: Miami University Summer Research Grant 1983: Miami University Summer Research Grant 1991: Ida Beam Visiting Professorship, University of Iowa Kamuf Vita, 2 1995: Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award, USC 1996-97: Mellon Dissertation Seminar in Literature and History (with Professor Marshall Cohen, Philosophy) 2002: Invited Senior Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University 2005: Colloquium grant, Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation 2006: René C. Wellek Prize for Literary and Cultural Theory, American Comparative Literature Association, for Book of Addresses 2008: Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences grant, USC 2009-2012: NEH Collaborative Research Grant, Project Director 2010-2012: Mellon Dissertation Seminars in the Humanities 2014: Named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government • PUBLICATIONS Monographs: Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise. University of Nebraska Press, 1982; paperback edition 1986. Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship. Cornell University Press, 1988; French translation, Signatures, ou l’institution de l'auteur. Galilée, 1991. The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction. University of Chicago Press, 1997; Serbo-Croatian translation, Univerzitet u Deknostrukciji, ili Podela Knjizevnosti. Belgrade: Belgrade Circle Press, 1999. Book of Addresses. Stanford University Press, Meridian Series, 2005; partial German translation: Adreßbuch, trans. by Rike Felke. Berlin: Brinkman & Bose, 2009. To Follow: The Wake of Jacques Derrida. Edinburgh University Press, 2010; paperback edition, 2012. Edited volumes: A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds. Columbia University Press, 1991. Special Issue on the Work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Paragraph 16, 2 (July 1993). Without Alibi, by Jacques Derrida, edited, translated, and with an introduction, Stanford University Press, 2002. Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Vol. 1, by Jacques Derrida, co-edited with Elizabeth Rottenberg, Stanford University Press, 2007. Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Vol. 2, by Jacques Derrida, co-edited with Elizabeth Rottenberg, Stanford University Press, 2008. “The Word of War,” Oxford Literary Review 31, 2 (2009). “Death Sentences,” Oxford Literary Review 35, 2 (2013). General issue, Oxford Literary Review, 37.1 (2015). Kamuf Vita, 3 Articles in journals: “Rousseau's Politics of Visibility,” Diacritics, Winter 1975, 51-56. “Inside Julie's Closet,” Romanic Review Nov. 1978, 296-306. “Abraham's Wake,” Diacritics, Spring 1979, 32-43; same title in French translation, Cahiers Confrontation 8 (1981), 17-33. “Replacing Feminist Criticism,” Diacritics, Summer, 1982, 42-47. “Penelope at Work: Interruptions in A Room of One's Own,” Novel, Fall 1982, 5-21 “The Gift of Clothes: Of Mme de Lafayette and the Origin of Novels,” Novel, Spring 1983, 233-45. “Femmeninism,” Critical Exchange 18 (Spring 1985), 47-62. “Baudelaire au féminin,” Paragraph 8 (1986), 75-93. “Monumental De-Facement: On Paul de Man's The Rhetoric of Romanticism,” Comparative Literature, Fall 1986, 319-28. “Floating Authorship,” Diacritics, Winter 1986, 3-13. “La Fuite de Rousseau,” Cahiers Confrontation 18 (1987), 85-98. “Seeing Through Rousseau,” L'Esprit Créateur 28, no. 4 (Winter 1988), 82-94. “Baudelaire's Modern Woman,” Qui Parle 4, no. 2 (Spring 1991), 1-7. “The Impossible Science of the Unique Being,” Quarterly Journal of Film and Video no. 4 (1991), 77-91. “A Post Card from San Galgano,” Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture 20, 46-47. “On the Subject of Ravishment (à même Jean-Luc Nancy),” Paragraph, 202-215. “To Give Place: Semi-Approaches to Hélène Cixous.” In Yale French Studies 85 (1995), edited by Lynne Huffer, 68-89. “The Replay's the Thing: Opéra de Pekin.” In Contretemps I, 1 (1995), 46-59. “Tel Quel and History,” Paragraph 18, 3 (November 1995), 240-47. “The Division of Literature,” Diacritics 25, 3 (Fall 1995), 53-72. “Interview with Peggy Kamuf,” Zenske Studije 10 (1998) “The Ghosts of Critique and Deconstruction,” Tympanum, I, 2 (1999) (online journal); reprinted in Deconstruction: A Reader, ed. Martin McQuillan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001), 198-213. “The Experience of Deconstruction,” Angelaki: A Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 4, 3 (December 1999), 3-14. “Contexts (A Letter to the Translator),” Parallax 14 (2000), 86-90. “The University in Deconstruction,” Belgrade Circle No 3-4 (1997), 1-2 (1998) (appeared in 2000), 47-59. “Perpetual Calendar,” Tympanum II, 2 (online journal) “Translating Spectres: An Interview with Peggy Kamuf,” Parallax 20 (July-Sept. 2001), 43-50. “The Haunts of Scholarship,” Paroles Gelées, 19, 2 (2001), 1-18. “To Be Done Weeping,” Oxford Literary Review, vol. 23 (2001), 53-70. Kamuf Vita, 4 “Béance,” New Centennial Review, 2, 3 (Fall, 2002), 37-56. “Tape-Recorded Surprise: Derrida Interviewed,” in Nottingham French Studies, 42, 1 (Spring 2003), 87-96. “The University in the World It is Attempting to Think,” Culture Machine 6 (2004) (online journal) “Traduire dans l’urgence,” Magazine littéraire 430 (April 2004), p. 49. “L’autre différence sexuelle,” trans. Brigitte Weltman-Aron. In Europe: Revue littéraire mensuelle (May 2004), 163-90. “Peace Keeping the Other War,” Revue de littérature comparée, 312, (Oct.-Dec. 2004), 445-65. “To Follow,” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 16, 3 (Fall 2005), 1-15. “Experience,” ESC: English Studies in Canada, 30, 4 (December 2004), 24-29. “Afterburn: An Afterword to ‘The Flying Manuscript,’” New Literary History 37, 1 (Winter 2006), 47-55. “From Now On,” Epoché, 10 2 (Spring 2006), 203-20. “Deconstruction,” Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 14. 2006, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 1-18. “Composition Displacement,” MLN 121 (2006), 872-92. “To Do Justice to ‘Rousseau,’ Irreducibly,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40:3 (2007), 395-404. “Accounterability,” Textual Practice, 21:2 (2007), 251-66; reprinted in Encountering Derrida: Legacies and Futures of Deconstruction, edited by Allison Weiner and Simon Morgan Wortham. London and New York: Continuum, 2007, 33-44. “Deconstruction,” Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 15, 2007 (Oxford: Oxford: University Press, 2008), 1-20. “Counting Madness,” Interview-article, The Oxford Literary Review, 28 (2008), 67-77 “Deconstruction,” Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 16, 2008 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 1-21. “Reading Economies (Over Again),” The Oxford Literary Review, 30 (2008), 69-86. “Bowing to Necessity in the Idiom of Rodolphe Gasché,” New Centennial Review, 8:3 (2009), 85-105; shortened version in Philosophy Today, SPEP Supplement (2009), 71-76. “Signed Paine, or Panic in Literature,” Diacritics 38, 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2008), 30-43. “The Ear Who?” Discourse 30, 1-2 (Winter-Spring 2008), ed. Dragan Kujundzič, 177-90. “The Names of War,” The Oxford Literary Review 31, 2 (2009), ed. by Peggy Kamuf, 231-48. “Crossings: An Interview with Peggy Kamuf,” in Mosaic 42, 4 (December 2009), 1-17. “Outside in Analysis,” in Mosaic 42, 4 (December 2009), 19-34. “The Deconstitution of Psychoanalysis,” Mosaic 42, 4 (December 2009), 35-44. Kamuf Vita, 5 “Passing Strange: The Laws of Translation,” Nottingham French Studies, 24, 2 (Summer 2010), 80-91; shorter version in Profession 2010, 64-71. “Life in Storage,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 4, 2012 (online). “‘This were kindness’: Economies of Differance in The Merchant of Venice,” The Oxford Literary Review 34 (2012), 71-87. “Protocol: Death Penalty Addiction,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 50, Spindel Supplement (2012), 5-19. “Rousseau’s Knees,” L’Esprit créateur, 52, 4 (Winter 2012), 132-43. “Betrayals: An Entertainment,” New Centennial Review, 12, 3 (Winter 2012), 17-26. “The Time of Marx,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 23, 2013 (online). “At the Heart of the Death Penalty,” The Oxford Literary Review, 35, 2 (2013), 241-51. “Rereading: Jacques Derrida’s ‘Point de folie—maintenant l’architecture,”
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