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Jean-Michel Rabaté
Categories:
- British and Irish Literature,
- Comparative Literature,
- Continental Philosophy,
- Critical Theory,
- Environmental Humanities/Literature and the Environment,
- Environmental Studies,
- Literary Theory,
- Literature and Philosophy,
- Material Culture,
- Modernism,
- Twentieth-Century Literature,
- Western European Literature
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Biography
Jean-Michel Rabaté is one of the world's foremost literary theorists. He is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Rabaté has authored or edited more than thirty books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Beckett, Pound, and Joyce. Recent books include Crimes of the Future (Bloomsbury, 2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Literature (2014), The Pathos of Distance (Bloomsbury, 2016), and Rust (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is one of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia (slought.org) and the Managing Editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. Since 2008, he has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.