French and Italian

Jean-Marie Apostolidès

On Jean-Marie Apostolidès

The Department of French & Italian was once the brightest, if not the biggest, constellation in the Stanford firmament. John Freccero, René Girard, Michel Serres, Valentin Mudimbe, Brigitte Cazelles and others, are no longer with us. Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Elisabeth Boyi and Hans Gumbrecht are still with us but retired. And now, another luminary of that legendary department has passed on. Jean-Marie Apostolidès– author, playwright, historian, literary critic, teacher, Situationist and social theorist – left behind an immense and immensely original body of work. The diamond of his magnus opus, Héroïsme et victimisation (2003), will shine on for a long time to come. His two earlier books, Le roi machine (1981) and Le prince sacrifié, were field-defining works that remain required reading in early modern French…

Upcoming Events

June
18
Date
Sunday, June 18, 2023, 12:30pm - 3:30pm
Location:
Dinkelspiel Auditorium & Oregon Courtyard at Pigott Hall

Speakers: Kathryn Starkey, DLCL Chair. TBD, Speaker.

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The Department of French & Italian was once the brightest, if not the biggest, constellation in the Stanford firmament. John Freccero, René Girard, Michel Serres, Valentin Mudimbe, Brigitte Cazelles and others, are no longer with us. Jean-Pierre…
Rita Dove is one of the foremost contemporary U.S. poets (U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-95, and Pulitzer Prize winner in 1987) and Mellon Fellow Ana Ilievska recently wrote a review and translated eight poems into Italian from Dove’s latest book,…
Alexei Grinbaum will be teaching in Stanford Professor Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s class, FRENCH 367: Introduction to Apocalyptic Thinking, on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, and will be available on campus for discussions until November 5, 2022. Grinbaum is…