Michael Lucey
Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor of French and Comparative Literature
mlucey@berkeley.edu
CV 4210 Dwinelle
Spring 2022: Thursdays 1-2 and Fridays 11-12 both on Zoom for now.
Research Areas
Professor Lucey specializes in French literature and culture of the 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-centuries. He also teaches about social, literary, and critical theory, sexuality studies, 19th- and 20th-century British literature and culture, and 20th-century American literature and culture. His latest book,
What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk, which includes discussions of Balzac, Eliot, Dostoevsky, Woolf, Sarraute, and Cusk alongside Proust, was published by the University of Chicago Press in early 2022. He is currently working on two new projects: "Thinking About Sexuality with Novels" and "Novels?and/as Language-in-Use." His translation of Didier Eribon’s?
Returning to Reims?was published in 2013,?and his translation of édouard Louis’s?
The End of Eddy?was published in 2017.
Professor Lucey was also the founding director of Berkeley’s?
Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, which sponsors lectures, conferences, fellowships and workshops.
Biography
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Selected Publications “Introduction: Proust’s Modernist Sociology.” In?“Approaching Proust in 2022.” A special issue of Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory 45, no. 1 (March 2022).
“Speech.” In Anna Elsner and Tom Stern, eds., The Proustian Mind. Routledge. Forthcoming.
“How You Read Madame Bovary.” Representations 156 (Fall 2021): 27-54.
“‘La recherche que l’on peut dire formelle’: Proust with Bourdieu.”? In Patrick Crowley and Shirley Jordan, eds., What Forms Can Do: The Work of Form in 20th- and 21st- Century French Literature and Thought. Pp. 219-35. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.
“Real-Time Literary Texts.” College English 82, no. 1 (2019): 41-54.
“Ami ou protégé: Balzac, Proust and the Variability of Friendship.” In The Art of Friendship in France, 1789-1914, a special issue of Romanic Review 110 (2019): 187-202.?
“What You Might Hear When People Talk, or Proust as a Linguistic Anthropologist.” In Matt Phillips and Tomas Weber, eds., Parasites: Exploitation and Interference in French Thought and Culture. Pp. 113-46. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2018.
“On Proust and Talking to Yourself.”?Qui Parle?26, no. 2 (2017): 281-293.
“Introduction: Language-in-Use and Literary Fieldwork,” co-authored with Tom McEnaney. In “Language-in-Use and the Literary Artifact.” A special issue of?Representations, no. 137 (Winter 2017): 1-22.
“Proust’s Bifurs.” In Patrick McGuinness and Emily McLaughlin, eds.,?The Made and the Found: Essays, Prose and Poetry in Honour of Michael Sheringham. Pp. 145-156. Oxford: Legenda, 2017.
“Proust and Language-in-Use.”??Novel: A Forum on Fiction?48, no. 2 (2015): 261-279.
“The Contexts of Marguerite Duras’s Homophobia.”?GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies?19, no. 3 (2013): 341-379.
“Mystères de la chair.” In Gerard Bonal and Frédéric Maget, eds.,?Cahiers de l’Herne. Colette.?Pp. 231-38. Paris: Editions de l’Herne. 2011.
“A Literary Object’s Contextual Life.” In Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas, eds.,?A Companion to Comparative Literature. Pp. 120-35. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011.
“When? Where? What?” In Janet Halley and Andrew Parker, eds.,?After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory. Pp. 221-44. Durham: Duke University Press. 2011.
“Simone de Beauvoir and Sexuality in the Third Person.”?Representations?109 (Winter 2010): 95-121.
Books