Suzanne Guerlac
Professor

Prof. Guerlac’s principal areas of research include 19th and 20th century literature and thought. Her interests include the examination of cultural ideologies and articulations between literature and philosophy, and literature and the visual arts. Her current project, Visual Dust: Proust and Photography, examines time, vision and the production of experience in A La Recherche du Temps Perdu.

Publications include:
Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson (Cornell University Press, 2006)


Literary Polemics, Bataille, Sartre, Valéry, Breton. (Stanford University Press, 1997, reprinted in paper, 1999)
Co-winner, Scaglione Prize, 1998

The Impersonal Sublime - Hugo, Baudelaire, Lautréamont and the Esthetics of the Sublime (Stanford University Press, 1990)

Derrida and the Time of the Political, co-edited with Pheng Cheah (Duke University Press, 2009)

Recent articles include:
“The Fragility of the Pardon (Derrida and Ricoeur)”, forthcoming in Derrida and the Time of the Political

“Valéry - Modernist Myths and (Anti) Modernist States of Mind” (forthcoming in The Romanic Review)

“The Useless Image – Bataille, Magritte, Bergson,” Representations 97, winter 2007, pp. 28-56

“Sartre, - ‘au bord de l’image’ in Situating/Situations de Sartre 2005, (New York University, 2007)

“Madame de Staël et le discours (féminin) de la ‘civilisation universelle’, Cahiers Staêliens, # 57, 2006

“Le Passé au Lavis, Choses Vues et Apparences Informes dans Le Rhin” in Hugo et l’Histoire, edited by Léon-François Hoffman and Suzanne Nash,(Presses de l’Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005)