Robert Harvey Chair, CLCS Professor Department of CLCS 2050 Humanities Buildinig Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355 robert.harvey@stonybrook.edu (631) 632-7464

Robert Harvey teaches topics ranging from literary and film theories to modern and contemporary literatures and the interpenetrations of literary and philosophical discourse. He has written extensively on Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marguerite Duras, Marcel Duchamp and Michel Deguy and has translated Lyotard, Deguy, Derrida, Ricoeur, and other French thinkers. Among Harvey's most recent books are Témoins d'artifice (L'Harmattan, 2003), an essay in fragments on the imagination and its role in the formation of the witness, and (with Pascal Le Brun-Cordier) Queer: repenser les identités (Presses Universitaires de France, 2003). He is currently writing a book entitled WWW: Wit, Witness, Witnessness, on the imagination and the mind-set of the witness figure in Samuel Beckett's later works. Harvey is Chair of the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook as well as a Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris.