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. His most recent books are Witnessness: Beckett, Levi, Dante and the Foundations of Ethics (Continuum, 2010), Les Écrits de Marguerite Duras (Éditions de l’Imec, 2009) and De l’exception à la règle (Éditions Lignes, 2006). He is presently working on the four-volume definitive and annotated edition of Marguerite Duras’s complete works in the Pléiade collection at Éditions Gallimard. Harvey was a Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, from 2001 until 2007.