Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, Professor of History.  Articles on Sartre, Flaubert, Dickens, Gaddis, Broch, Habermas, Wittgenstein, Ricoeur, Freud, and Marx. 
Books: Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Philosopher; A Preface to Sartr; "Madame Bovary" on Trial; Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language; History & Criticism; History, Politics, and the Novel; Soundings in Critical Theory; Modern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New Perspectives (co-editor); The Bounds of Race (editor); Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma; History and Memory after Auschwitz; Writing History, Writing Trauma; History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies.  Areas of research: history and criticism, varieties of Critical Theory, especially psychoanalysis, Marxism, and poststructuralism; modern novel, problems of narrative, historical and rhetorical readings of nonfictional texts, Holocaust and Trauma Studies.

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