Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature
Sydney Lévy is Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature specializing in the 19th and 20th centuries with particular interest in science and literature. He is the author of books on Max Jacob and Francis Ponge and of articles on Jean Ricardou, André Breton, Robert Desnos, Surrealism, Edmond Jabès, OULIPO, Lorand Gaspar, Michael Palmer, Mallarmé, Michel Deguy, George Perec, Marcel Benabou, E.A, Poe, Ada Lovelace, Balzac and what fiction can tell us about the possibility of love between humans and machines. He is also the translator of several contemporary American poets and the co-founder and co-editor for over thirty years of SubStance, a Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, currently in its 54th year of publication. He has served twice as Chair of Department and vice-chair of Comparative Literature. He joined the department after starting his career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned a BS in Physiology and a MA in French at the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in French at the University of California-Irvine.
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