Kevin Newmark
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B.A. (Holy Cross College), M.A. (Middlebury College in Paris, France), Ph.D. (Yale). Professor of French at the Department of Romance Languages and Literature, Boston College. Also taught at Yale. Areas of Specialization: post-romantic poetry and prose, literary criticism and theory, philosophical approaches to literature, and literary approaches to philosophy.
Author of Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. Most recent publications include: "Deconstruction", in Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought, ed. Lawrence Kritzman, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006; "On Parole: Blanchot, Saussure, Paulhan," Yale French Studies (Special Issue: on Jean Paulhan), December, 2004; "Danser le jazz: de La Nausée à L'Invitée", Simone de Beauvoir Studies, Volume 20, 2003-04. Forthcoming: "Tongue-tied: What Albert Camus' Fiction Couldn't Teach us about Ethics and Politics," Albert Camus in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Mark Orme, Christine Margerrison, and Lissa Lincoln. Amsterdam: Rodopi Press.
