Education
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 B.A. Humanities Special Programs, Stanford University, 1978
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M.A. French, Johns Hopkins University, 1982
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Ph.D. Comparative Literature, John Hopkins University, 1985
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
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Tenure Track Appointments
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Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 2005-
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Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 1992-2005
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Associate Professor of French, University of Southern California, 1991-1992
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Assistant Professor of French, University of Southern California, 1985-1991
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Visiting and Temporary Appointments
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Mellon Faculty Fellow, Harvard University, 1988-1989
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Description of Research
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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Professor Starr's best-known research examines the ways in which literary, theoretical and filmic texts bear the traces of significant traumatic events in the cultures from which they spring. Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory After May '68 studies the strategically central role played by a constellation of commonplace 'explanations' for the necessary failure of revolutionary action within French theoretical discourse of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath tracks the ways in which literary, historiographical and filmic enactments of confusion served to parry the specific traumas of the so-called Terrible Year of 1870-1871. For 2007-2008, he is on sabbatical completing We the Paranoid, a web-based multimedia ‘book’ examining the mutations of what Richard Hofstadter famously called “the paranoid style” in American culture of the past two decades. He envisions this project as a dynamic one, to which both graduate and undergraduate students will contribute in the years to come.
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Conferences and Other Presentations
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Conference Presentations
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"The Filmic Commune", 19th-Century French Studies Colloquium, Arizona, 2003
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"The Uses of Confusion: Lefebvre's Commune", 20th-Century French Studies Colloquium, Illinois-Urbana, 2003
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"The Uses of Confusion: Revolutionary Violence and Significant Form (Keynote Address)", Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Student Conference in French and Francophone Studies, Stanford, 2003
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"'Rien n'est Tout': Lacan and the Legacy of May '68", 20th-Century French Studies Colloquium, Pennsylvania, 2000
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"Rites of Confusion: Zola's Debacle", 19th-Century French Studies Colloquium, Illinois-Urbana, 2000
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"The Commune and the Right to Confusion", MLA, Washington, DC, 2000
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Publications
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Book
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Starr, P. We the Paranoid. (Multimedia Project, Completion Spring 2008).
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Starr, P.
(2006).
Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath. New York: Fordham University Press.
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Starr, P.
(1995).
Logics of Failed Revolt: French Thoery After May '68. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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Book Chapter
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Derrida, J., Starr, P.
(2007).
An Idea of Flaubert: 'Plato's Letter' (Trans.). pp. 299-317. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press: Psyche: Inventions of the Other. Ed. Peggy Kamuf and Elizabeth Rottenberg.
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Starr, P.
(1989).
Science and Confusion: On Flaubert's Temptation. pp. 199-218. New York: Chelsea House: Gustave Flaubert: Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom.
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Journal Article
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Starr, P.
(2004).
The Uses of Confusion: Lefebvre's Commune. Contemporary French Civilization.
Vol. 29 (1), pp. 67-84.
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Starr, P.
(2001).
'Rien N'est Tout': Lacan and the Legacy of May '68. Esprit Createur.
Vol. 41 (1), pp. 34-42.
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Starr, P.
(1998).
The Tragic Ear of the Intellectual: Lacan. Tympanum. http://www.usc.edu/dept/comp-lit/tympanum/1/starr.html..
Vol. 1
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Starr, P.
(1990).
Hysterical Communities: Reflections on our fin de siecle. Esprit Createur.
Vol. 32 (4), pp. 83-92.
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Starr, P.
(1990).
The Style of (Post-)Liberal Desire: Bouvard et Pecuchet. Nineteenth-Century French Studies.
Vol. 18 (1/2), pp. 74-91.
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Starr, P.
(1985).
Salammbo: The Politics of an Ending. French Forum.
Vol. 10 (1), pp. 40-56.
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Honors and Awards
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USC Center for Excellence in Teaching, Faculty Fellow, 2005-
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Simpson Research Grant in the Humanities, 1998
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National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Summer Stipend, 1988
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USC Faculty Research and Innovation Fund, 1988
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French Government Research Grant, 1984-1985
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Camargo Foundation Grant,
Fall
1984
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Service to the University
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Administrative Appointments
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Dean (interim), USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, 2006-2007
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Dean of Undergraduate Programs, USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, 2005-2006
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Acting Chair, Department of French and Italian,
Fall
2003
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Acting Chair, Department of French and Italian,
Fall
2002
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Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, 1998-2001
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President, USC College Faculty Council, 1998-1999
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Chair, Program in Comparative Literature, 1994-1997
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Committees
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Member, WASC Accreditation Steering Committee, 2005-2007
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Member, Deans Advisory Committee for the Provost's Arts and Humanities Initiative, 2006-2007
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Chair, University General Education Committee, 2005-2006
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Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, Comparative Literature, 2004-2005
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Co-Chair, USC College, USC Good Neighbors Campaign, 2003-2005
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Member, Academic Senate Executive Board. Senate Liaison on Faculty Protection Issues. Elected Academic Vice-President (transitions to Presidency; declined for deanship), 2003-2005
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Member, USC College General Education Review Committee, 2004-2005
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Co-Chair, (Co-Founder)USC Francophone Resource Center, 2004
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Chair, University Committee on Information Services, 1999-2000
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Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, French, 1991-1994
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Service to the Profession
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Conferences Organized
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USC symposia on "Psychoanalysis and Difference"; "Vision Language"; "Mass: Event, Materiality, Crowds"; "New Babel"; "Thinking Video", 1991-2001
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Professional Offices
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Delegate on Politics and the Profession, MLA, 1990-1992
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Reviewer for Publication
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Consultant Reader, Columbia University Press, Stanford University Press, University of Minnesota Press, University of Nebraska Press, McGill-Queens University Press, Yale University Press, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 19th-Century French Studies Colloquium, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
, 1995-
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