Jacques Lezra
Professor
Department of Comparative Literature / Department of Spanish and Portuguese - New York University
About:
Jacques Lezra, a specialist in literary theory and in the literary, visual and philosophical culture of the early modern period, received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 1990. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, at Yale, Harvard, and at the Bread Loaf School of English. Lezra has published Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe (1997) and edited Spanish Republic (2005) and Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey and the Labor of Reading (1988). With Georgina Dopico (NYU), he co-edited Covarrubias's 1613 Suplemento al 'Tesoro de la lengua'. His 1992 translation into Spanish of Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight won the PEN Critical Editions Award. Lezra has just completed Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror in Radical Democracy (Fordham 2009); his Economía política del alma: El suceso cervantino will appear in Fall 2008.