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Peggy Kamuf

Expert in French literature, Jacques Derrida, deconstruction and literary theory
  • Professor of Comparative Literature and French
  • USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Office: (213) 740-3171
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Expertise

  • deconstruction
  • post-structuralism
  • modern literary theory
  • the work of Jacques Derrida
  • the work of Paul de Man

Languages

  • French

Additional Information

  • Author of Fictions of Feminine Desire: Disclosures of Heloise (1982)
  • Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (1988)
  • The Division of Literature, or the University in Deconstruction (1997)
  • Editor of A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds (1991)