College of Arts and Sciences

CULTURAL STUDIES AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE EMERITUS FACULTY

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Sandy Petrey

 Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. – Yale University

Donald.Petrey@stonybrook.edu

19th-century fiction, theories of the novel; contemporary criticism.

Sandy Petrey's books include In the Court of the Pear King (Cornell University Press, 2005), Speech Acts and Literary Theory (Routledge, 1990), Realism and Revolution: Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, and the Performances of History (Cornell University Press, 1988), and History in the Text Quatrevingt-Treize and the French Revolution (Purdue University Monographs in the Romance Languages, 1980). His principal research interests are realist fiction and contemporary literary theory.

Prof. Petrey's CV