Leland de la Durantaye, Ph.D.

Professor of Literature

Department:

Literature

Areas of Expertise:

Aesthetics, Beckett, Continental Philosophy, English and American Literature, French Literature, German Literature, Italian Literature, Literary Modernism, Modern Literature, Nabokov

leland.deladurantaye@cmc.edu

Roberts South 215

Website

Office Hours

Monday: 2:30-4:30pm

Education
Awards and Affiliations
Research and Publications

B.A. Michigan State University, School of Arts and Sciences; M.A. Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences; Ph.D. Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences

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

Beckett's Art of Mismaking (Harvard University Press, 2016)
“To Be and To Do. On Giorgio Agamben’s L’uso dei corpi. Homo sacer, IV, 2” The Boston Review. January-February 2016
“Who Whips Whom.” [Review essay of D.A.F. de Sade Justine et autres romans. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade] The London Review of Books. February 19, 2015. 35-37
“Taking Refuge in the Loo.” [Review essay on recent works by Peter Handke] The London Review of Books. Volume 36, Number 10, May 22. 33-34
“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.