Author: David Carroll

David Carroll is professor of French and past director of the Critical Theory Institute, former chair of the Department of French and Italian, and past director of the European Studies Program at the University of California, Irvine. His books include French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture ; Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida ; and The Subject in Question: The Languages of Theory and the Strategies of Fiction . He is also the editor of a collection of essays entitled The States of “Theory” and is currently working on a book entitled Crises in French Identity: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Present .