Ann Smock
Professor and Head Graduate Advisor

Professor Smock’s teaching and research interests focus on 20th-century fiction and poetry, literary criticism and theory, France during World War II, the Algerian War; Blanchot, Beckett, Jacques Roubaud, Jacques Jouet, J.-Ph. Toussaint. Her current projects bear on Walter Benjamin, as well as on Roubaud and Jouet.

Publications include:
“Distant Language” Parallax #39, 2006

“Cloudy Roubaud,” Representations, spring 2004

What Is There to Say? (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), is on Blanchot, Melville, des Forêts and Beckett