Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Narrative and Theater. Jean-Paul Sartre. Theater and Committed Literature. History of Theater. Autobiography and the Novel. French-Canadian Literature.
My work on Sartre has fueled my interest in other writers of the period: Céline, Nizan, Drieu la Rochelle and Malraux, to name only the most obvious examples. I have also taught and written on more recent dramatists: Beckett, Adamov and particularly Armand Gatti whose work I have followed for almost twenty years. I am using a series of articles devoted to his plays and a current article on his monumental memoirs as the impetus for a book-length study of his dramatic writing. From my work on Gatti and Sartre, I have become interested in theories of the image and their possible application to the stage and dramatic theory.
Besides theater, I am interested in the modern novel and its relation to autobiography (Sartre, Malraux, Serge Doubrovsky's "autofiction" that I presented to anglophone readers in a special issue of Genre), fin de siecle literature and early Freud.
