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A former student at the École normale supérieure, Paris, Laurent Dubreuil has been trained by scholars such as Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Judet de La Combe, and Umberto Eco. Dubreuil holds an agrégation as well as a doctorate in Literature and a second doctorate in Philosophy and Women’s Studies. His research focuses on literature as an expression of thought that both defies the boundaries of rationality and responds to the disciplines of knowledge. Dubreuil has reading ability in seven languages. He frequently works on French & Francophone literature, classical Greek texts, Continental theory, philosophy and social thought. Dubreuil has published numerous articles in journals or collections, and he has edited several special issues of Labyrinthe on topics ranging from the end of the world to comics criticism. He is the author of four books. His first monograph explores the contradictory notion of possession through a detailed interpretation of Maupassant, Artaud and Blanchot. L'Empire du langage dwells on language and social prescription in (post)colonial France, from Renaissance to the present. L'État critique de la littérature is a meditation on the intellective discontinuities at stake in history, philosophy, and criticism, as they are enacted by French literary oeuvres (1850s-1950s). A force d'amitié is a 'sentimental essay' on passionate friendship, particularly in Greece and meta-European societies. Dubreuil is now preparing a new manuscript, tentatively entitled The Indiscipline of Literary Studies. This would be a broad and comparative effort on lingual signification, literary displacements, and negative epistemology. Laurent Dubreuil first came to Cornell in Fall 2005 as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Romance Studies, before being granted tenure in Fall 2008 and appointed as a Full Professor in Spring 2009. Since 2007, he is the Director of the French Studies Program. He is a member of the board of Diacritics, the founder and general editor of sans papier-the first collection of electronic pre-prints in the field of French studies-, and the editor-at-large of Labyrinthe, an interdisciplinary journal. Currently an Appel Fellow, Dubreuil is on leave in 2008-2009. Books De l’Attrait à la possession. Maupassant, Artaud, Blanchot. Paris: Hermann, 2003. L'Empire du langage. Colonies & francophonie. Paris: Hermann, 2008. L'État critique de la littérature. Paris: Hermann, forthcoming in Spring 2009 A force d'amitié. Paris: Hermann, forthcoming in 2009 Articles "The Presences of Deconstruction" New Literary History, 2006. Labyrinthe 28, 2007: La Fin des disciplines? Research
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