Leland de la Durantaye, Ph.D.
Professor of Literature
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Finalist for PEN Best Translated Book of 2011 for "Upstaged" by Jacques Jouet. 2012
Finalist for "Three Percent" Best Translated Book of 2011 for "Upstaged" by Jacques Jouet. 2012
Berlin Prize. Holtzbrinck Fellow. The American Academy in Berlin. 2011-2012
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University. 2008-2009
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- https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/bringing-myth-surface
- https://lithub.com/how-do-we-write-about-evil/
- https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-brief-interview-with-leland-de-la-durantaye-author-of-hannah-versus-the-tree
- https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/leland-de-la-durantaye-hannah-versus-the-tree
- https://kboo.fm/media/70244-hannah-versus-tree-leland-de-la-durantaye
“To Be and To Do. On Giorgio Agamben’s L’uso dei corpi. Homo sacer, IV, 2” The Boston Review. January-February 2016
“Sedan Chairs and Turtles.” [Review essay on Walter Benjamin’s Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Age of Advanced Capitalism”] The London Review of Books. Volume 35, Number 22. November 21, 2013
“Do the Right Thing: Calvino’s Letters.” [Review of Italo Calvino’s Letters: 1940-1985.] The Boston Review. September/October 2013. Vol. 38, no. 5. 53-59
“Lost in Thought” [Review of Peter Osborne’s Anywhere or Not At All: The Philosophy of Contemporary Art.] Artforum October 2013. 83-84
“Rough Old World: Tom Drury’s Pacific.” The Los Angeles Review of Books. September 2013.