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Raymond
Gay-Crosier
Professor
Emeritus
Department of
Languages, Literatures & Cultures
University of
Florida
Gainesville, FL
32611
Private
Phone: (352) 378-8083
Fax: (352 ) 273-3775
e-mail: gaycros@ufl.edu
1. Education, Major Positions and Activities
Born and raised in Switzerland,educated in Switzerland (Universities of Basel and Berne,doctorat ès lettres,1965) and France (Sorbonne), Raymond Gay-Crosier is a specialist in modern French literature. He taught one year at Trent University (Peterborough,Ont.,Canada), before joining the University of Florida as an Associate Professor in 1967and was promoted to Full Professor in 1973. After a ten-year stint as Graduate Coordinator of French (1970 to 1980), he was elected Chair of the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and later reelected for three additional terms (1981-1993).
Past and
current research and professional service activities include
the publication of books and articles on French literature and
other topics (see below) and several editorial positions :
Principal co-editor of vols. I and II and editor-in-chief of vols. III
and IV of the Œuvres complètes by A. Camus (Paris, Gallimard, Pléiade),
editor-in-chief of the Camus series (1986-2010) published by
Lettres Modernes (Paris), General Editor (1989-2000) of the «Ars
Interpretandi» series published by P. Lang (Munich / NewYork), and
Assistant Editor oft the French Review (1989-2010). He has been a member of the Executive
Committee(1971-73,1974-81), Vice President, and President of the
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (1993-94), and President of
the Howe Society (University of Florida, 1994-96). He is also a co-founder
(with Brian T. Fitch and Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi at the 1982 Camus Décade de
Cerisy-la-Salle) and Past Vice President of the Société des Études
Camusiennes / Camus Studies Association, a worldwide scholarly
association. Beyond his work as convener, panelist and chair of sessions held
at various national and international professional meetings (SAMLA,
MLA,numerous special topics conferences abroad), he has been the
principal organizer of three international symposia on Albert Camus, two
having been held on the campus of the University of Florida (1970, 1980),
one in Cerisy-la-Salle, France (1982).The proceedings of these
conferences have been published by CELEF, Sherbrooke (Canada), the
University Presses of Florida, and Gallimard (Paris) respectively.
2. Research Orientation
General research focus: 20th-century French literature, critical theory. Specific research activities are three-fold: a) coordinating vols. I and II (published in April 2006), supervising corrigenda in the second print of vols. I and II, published in March 2007), and leading preparation of vols. III and IV (published in November 2008) of the new four-volume Pléiade edition of the complete works of Albert Camus ; b) an ongoing series of various commissioned articles, keynote presentations and book reviews; On the internet , he also maintained until Winter 2012 and regularly updated a major scrollable research bibliography on Albert Camus (1990-2012). See Bibliog.htm . Currently he continues to coordinate the corrections for the periodic reprints of Camus’s Œuvres complètes (Paris, Gallimard, Pléiade series) and is preparing a special volume under the title L’Herne Camus to be published in 2013 .
3. Summary of Publications
He is the sole
author of five books (four on Albert Camus, one on the
Provençal Troubadours) and contributing editor of 16 volumes (mostly on
Camus; published by Lettres Modernes, University of Florida Press, Gallimard).
A more recent sole-authored book,entitled ALBERT CAMUS. PARADIGMES DE
L'IRONIE: RÉVOLTE ET NÉGATION AFFIRMATIVE, was published in January 2001 by
the Éditions Paratexte in Toronto. A later sole-authored book is a
commissioned study on THE STRANGER , an extended Forschungsbericht
which appeared in October of 2001 (Gale Research series of "Literary
Masterpieces"no.8). Volume 22 of the long-standing Camus series has been
published in 2010. Its main theme is "Camus et l’Histoire". It
features two main sections, one on the proceedings of an international
conference on this topic held in February 2008 on the campus of the University
of Florida, one on a series of general articles on the same subject.
Volumes I and II of the new Pléiade edition of Camus’s Œuvres complètes were published in April 2006, volumes III and IV in November 2008 (Paris, Gallimard). This authoritative edition of Camus’s complete works contains an extensive critical apparatus.
Of the over
one 120 articles in professional journals and chapters in books
that are published, approximately 75 deal with Albert Camus. They
appeared in, among others, French Review, Symposium ,
Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur, Revue
des Lettres Modernes , Australian Journal of French Studies,
Europe, Orbis Litterarum, etc.The other articles deal
with theory of irony, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Stéphane Mallarmé,
André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Butor, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and,
especially, Claude Simon.They appeared in Culture, Études Littéraires,
Texte/Revue deThéorie et de Critique Littéraire, Romance Notes, Revue
d'Histoire Littéraire de la France, Études camusiennes, Revue des Sciences humaines, etc.
Several essays in English on professional issues appeared in
specialized journals or books.
4. Awards and Honors
Recipient of various research and travel grants, a Professional Excellence Award (U. of Florida, 1996), member of the Chinard Prize Jury (Institut Français de Washington, 1981-1990) and the MLA William Riley Parker Prize Jury (1984-87), Chevalier (1987) and Officier (1993) des Palmes Académiques (French Government), Honorary Phi Kappa Phi member (1986-), President of the Howe Society (U.of Florida,1994-96), President of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (1993-94). For the academic year 2000-2001, he was awarded the Delton F.Scudder Term Professorship. As of May 2003, he is Professor Emeritus.
5. Guest Lectures, Visiting Appointments, Consultancies
Since
1970,
numerous invitations as keynote speaker or guest lecturer at seminars
and
national or international conferences. Recent appearances as keynote
and
invited speaker include : International Camus conference,
Cerisy-la-Salle (August 2013), Boise State University (March 2013), the
Universität Zürich, Switzerland (March 2012), Dokkyo
University, Tokyo (November 2010), Université Catholique de l’Ouest,
Angers
(France, November 2010), Florida State University (March 2010), New
York
University (April 2010), Royal Military College of Canada (May 2009);
Centre de
documentation A. Camus de la Bibliothèque Méjanes, contributing
convener of a
round table on the new Pléiade edition (January 2009), Universitat
Pompeu
Fabra, Barcelona, invited conference speaker (November 2007);
Université du
Littoral, Dunkerque, France, invited conference speaker (May 2007);
University
of Wisconsin (keynote speaker at the 2006 international Camus
conference);
University of Ulster at Coleraine, N. Ireland (guest seminars, 2005);
Harvard
University Humanities Center (2004); Agora Seminar on "Camus in
Brazil", São Paulo (appearance sponsored by French government, 2003);
Cornell University (Fall 2002); University of Ulster at Coleraine, N.
Ireland
(Fall 2002); University of North Carolina / Greensboro (Spring
2002); Mishkonot Center for Mediterranean Studies,Jerusalem(1997);
short
semester visiting appointment, Université de Picardie/ JulesVerne,
Amiens
(1996); invited lectures/seminars at the Université de Beauvais
(1996);
Washington & Lee University (1996); Universities of Oslo (Norway),
Uppsala (Sweden),and Odense (Denmark) (1994), etc.; six major
consultancies (five as committee chair) for the Louisiana Board of
Regent to select institutional grants in the humanities for private
and public universities in the state of Louisiana (1991,1994,
1997, 2000, 2003, 2006), consultant and chief consultant for the
evaluation of several academic departments on other campuses,etc.
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