Lawrence Schehr
Office: 2150 FLB
Phone: 244-2717
Email: schehr@illinois.edu
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Lawrence R. Schehr is Professor of French and has published a number of books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. These include Parts of an Andrology: On Representations of Men's Bodies, Rendering French Realism, Alcibiades at the Door: Gay Discourses in French Literature, The Shock of Men: Homosexual Hermeneutics and French Writing, and Flaubert and Sons: Readings of Flaubert, Zola, and Proust.
Professor Schehr is also the co-editor of several volumes, including Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French, as well as an anthology, *French Food* (Routledge) and an issue of Yale French Studies dedicated to the work of Jean-François Lyotard. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Contemporary French Civilization. His research interests include French realist narrative and gay studies.
Publications include:
Books
French Gay Modernism (University of Illinois Press, 2004)
Figures of Alterity: French Narrative and Its Others (Stanford U.P., 2003)
Parts of an Andrology: On Representations of Men’s Bodies. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Rendering French Realism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Alcibiades at the Door: Gay Discourses in French Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
The Shock of Men: Homosexual Hermeneutics and French Writing. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Flaubert and Sons: Readings of Flaubert, Zola, and Proust. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 1986.
Books Edited
French Food: On the Table, on the Page, and in French Culture. Co-editor, Allen S. Weiss. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French. Co-editor, Dominique Fisher. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
Special Issues of Journals Edited
Queer au masculin. CRIN. (2004)
Writing after the Erotic. L’Esprit Créateur. (2004). Co-editor Jean-François Fourny.
French Cultural Studies: The State of the Art. Contemporary French Civilization 26:2 (2002).
"Jean-François Lyotard: Time and Judgment." Yale French Studies 99 (2001). Co-editor, Robert Harvey.
"Reading Violence." SubStance 86 (1997). Co-editor, David F. Bell.
"Cultural Studies, Cultural Wars." Contemporary French Civilization 21.2 (1997). Co-editor, Jean-François Fourny.
"Discourses and Sex." Contemporary French Civilization 16.2 (1992).
"Fins de siècle." L’Esprit Créateur 32.4 (1992).