| Jean-Jacques Thomas is Professor of Romance Studies, Literature and Linguistics at Duke University. He is the Director of Canadian and North American Studies. Since 1990 he is also the Director of the Summer Institute of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He taught at the Université de Paris-VIII, the University of Michigan and at Columbia University; for three years he was a Visiting Professor at UQAM; in 2005 he was appointed Associate Faculty Member at the Centre d'Etudes Poétiques of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is a member of the COS (Comité d'Orientation Scientifique - International Expert, Humanities) for the French Universities of Aix-Marseille (Provence, Méditerranée, Paul Cézanne). He has published several books on poetics and contemporary French literature: Lire Leiris: essai d'étude poétique d'un fonctionnement analinguistique (Paris, 1972); Poétique générative (Paris, 1978); Poética Générativa (Buenos Aires, 1982; new and augmented edition, 1989); La langue, la poésie (Lille, 1989); Yves Bonnefoy: A Concordance (New York, 1990); La langue volée (Berne, 1990). With Steven Winspur he co-authored Poeticized Language (Penn State Press, 2000). He translated into French The Semiotic Web [La Toile sémiotique] by Thomas Sebeok (Bruxelles, 1981) and Semiotics of Poetry [Sémiotique de la poésie] by Michael Riffaterre (Paris, 1983). He is a founding editor and a member of the editorial board of the European journal FPC (2003) and an associate editor of Poetics Today; he is a member of the editorial boards of Studies in 20th-Century Literature, Sub-Stance, and a former member of the Advisory Editorial Committee of PMLA. He is Directeur Littéraire (Editor-in-chief) of PUNM (New Orleans). He was chair of several MLA divisional committees and an elected member of the Delegate Assembly (1993-1998 Theoretical linguistics; 2001-2004 -- Politics of the Profession); in 2003 he was asked to be a candidate for the MLA Executive Committee (declined). Since 1996 he is a national member for the AP evaluation board and was a member of the Coalition Group of Foreign Languages Specialists which produced the National Standards for Foreign Languages (Project 2000). In the fall of 2006 he will lecture on extreme contemporary French literature (Sorbonne, Paris-4), migratory Francophone literature and the city(Cambridge, ACQS), Perec (Montréal, U. of Montréal), Québec - Haiti (St. Padre Island, ICCS). Education:
- Diplome de l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales Université de Paris-III, 1972
- Doctorat Mention "Très bien" Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 1972
- Maîtrise ès-Lettres Classiques Université de Lille, France, 1969
- Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Université de Lille, 1969
- Étudiant libre, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1969
Research Interests:
19th and 20th Centuries French literature and culture, Poetry and Poetics, French and General Linguistics, Semiotics, New World Francophone Studies Duties:
Director of Graduate Studies - Romance Studies
Director Canadian and North American Studies - University Recent Publications (More Publications)
- J.-J. Thomas. "« Photographic Memories of French Poetry : Denis Roche, Jean-Marie Gleize»,." Yale French Studies (Accepted, Summer 2008).
- J.-J.Thomas. "« DADA »." . Dallas: Gale Group, Spring, 2007. [pdf]
- J.-J. Thomas. "«Jean-Marie Gleize ou la poétique de l’aporie herméneutique »." Ecrire l’énigme Ed. Christelle Reggiani, Bernard Magné eds. Paris : Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 2007, 215-230.. [aff_livre.php]
- J. Thomas. "« Gleize’s Poetic Pix »." L'Esprit Créateur (Accepted, Spring 2008).
- J.-J. Thomas. "«Roubaud Proprose”." Jacques Roubaud, écrivain, mathématicien. Ed. Agnès Dixon, Véronique Montémont eds. Paris : Presses Universitaires du CNRS,
Accepted, Spring 2008.
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