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Sydney Lévy
Professor of French
Vice-Chair and Graduate Advisor, Comparative Literature
Educational Background
- Ph.D. in French, University of California
- M.A in French, University of Illinois
- B.S. in Physiology, University of Illinois
Academic Distinctions and Awards
- Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities
- Fellow, Camargo Foundation
- Grant Recipient, The Brittingham Foundation
- Grant Recipient, Center for German and European Studies, UC Berkeley
Research Interests
- Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature
- Contemporary Poetry
- Fantastic Literature
- Cognitive and Epistemological Approaches to Literature
- Literary Theory
- Literary Translation
Major Publications
- The Play of the Text: Max Jacob's Le Cornet à dés (1981)
- Francis Ponge. De la connaissance en poésie (Presse Universitaires de Vincennes, 1999).
- & articles on Robert Desnos, André Breton, Michel Deguy, Francis Ponge, Lorand Gaspar, Edmond Jabés, Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Oulipo, E. A. Poe, Ada Lovelace Byron, and Balzac in such journals as Texte, Littérature, Enseignement, Modern Language Notes, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Littérature, Action Poétique, Europe and Yale French Studies
Translation
- Lamentations pour les créateurs de Jack Spicer. Trans. with Jean-Jacques Viton, Paris: Format américain, 1994.
- Sydney Lévy and Jean-Jacques Vito. Notes pour Echo Lake, by Michael Palmer (Spectres Familiers, 1992)
Editorial Work
- Special Issue of Substance: Marcel Benabou
- (Vol. 28, n. 3, 1999) & Science & Literature (1994), Michel Serres (1997)
- Co-Editor: Co-Founder and co-Editor of Sub-Stance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism. The University of Wisconsin Press