Peggy Kamuf
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Peggy Kamuf is the Marion Frances Chevalier
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
at the University of Southern California
. She is one of the primary English translators of the works of Jacques Derrida
. She received the American Comparative Literature Association
's 2006 René Wellek Prize for her 2005 work Book of Addresses.
Marion Frances Chevalier
Marion Frances Chevalier was a philologist best known for her discovery in the Bibliothèque d'Orléans of The Adventures and Marriage of Panurge, a play by Pousset de Montauban that had remained unknown for 250 years and was the first drama derived from the works of Rabelais. Her analysis of this...
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
at the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
. She is one of the primary English translators of the works of Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida was a French philosopher, born in French Algeria. He developed the critical theory known as deconstruction and his work has been labeled as post-structuralism and associated with postmodern philosophy...
. She received the American Comparative Literature Association
American Comparative Literature Association
The American Comparative Literature Association is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work connects several different literary traditions and cultures or that examines the premises of cross-cultural literary study...
's 2006 René Wellek Prize for her 2005 work Book of Addresses.
Works
- Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise (1982)
- Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (1988)
- A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds (1991, with Derrida)
- The Division of Literature: Or the University in Deconstruction (1997)
- Book of Addresses (2005)
- Derrida's Gift (2006, with Naomi Schor and Elizabeth Weed)