CONCISE CURRICULUM VITÆ

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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 ) 392-5679
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, the currently held being: Principal co-editor of vols. I and II and editor-in-chief of vols. III and IV of the ŒŒuvres complètes by A. Camus (Paris, Gallimard, Pléiade) and of the Camus series published by Lettres Modernes (Paris), General Editor of the «Ars Interpretandi» series published by P. Lang (Munich / NewYork), and Assistant Editor oft the French Review. He was 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 at the 1982 Camus Décade de Cerisy-la-Salle) and 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 was 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. Since 1986, he has been Assistant Editor for critical articles published in the French Review.

2. Research Orientation

General research focus: 20th-century French literature, critical theory. Specific current 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 and book reviews; c) continuing editorial tasks, incl. the preparation of issue no.22 of the Camus-series ; editorial work for the «Ars Interpretandi» monograph series and the French Review. On the internet , he also maintains and regularly updates a major scrollable research bibliography on Albert Camus (1990-2008). See Bibliog.htm

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 recent book,entitled ALBERT CAMUS. PARADIGMES DE L'IRONIE: RÉVOLTE ET NÉGATION AFFIRMATIVE, was published in January 2000 by the Éditions Paratexte in Toronto. A later sole-authered 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 21 of the Camus series has been published in 2007. Its main subject is an expanded "Grand Carnet critique" reviewing about 40 books on Camus published between 2000 and 2005. Volume 22, currently in press, will be devoted to “Camus et l’histoire” and contain, beyond several articles, the proceedings of an international conference on this topic held in February 2008 on the campus of the University of Florida.

Volumes I and II of the new Pléiade edition of Camus’s Œuvres complètes were published in April 2007, 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 hundred articles in professional journals and chapters in books that are published, approximately 65 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, ÉtudesLittéraires, 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 include: Royal Military College of Canada, keynote speaker (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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