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Vincent Debaene
Assistant Professor of French

vd2169@columbia.edu
502 Philosophy Hall
(212) 854-3522

Vincent Debaene received his academic training in France, where he was a fellow of the École normale supérieure. He took the Agrégation de lettres modernes in 1996 and received his doctorate from the University of Paris-Sorbonne in 2004. He was a Lecturer at Yale University in 1996-1997, taught for two years in high school in Antananarivo (Madagascar), and for four years at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Principal teaching and research interests include French anthropology, 20th-Century French literature, literary theory, intellectual history, and the points of contact between scientific discourses and literature. Debaene was in charge of the edition of the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. His book on the relationship between literature and anthropology in 20th-Century France, “L’Adieu au voyage”, will be published by Gallimard in 2009 in the "Bibliothèque des sciences humaines" series. He has published articles in French literature journals as well as in anthropology journals.

Selected Bibliography
Books:

Nadja d’André Breton, ‘Profil d’une œuvre’, Paris: Hatier, 2002.

Claude Lévi-Strauss: l’homme au regard éloigné, ‘Découvertes’, Paris: Gallimard, 2009 (co-authored with Frédéric Keck).

Critical Edition:

Preface of Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Œuvres, Paris : Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2008, p. IX-XLII.

Critical edition of Tristes tropiques, in Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Œuvres, Paris : Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 2008.

Online Articles:

“Le lettré et la division sociale du travail. Inactualité d’Agathon.” (June 2005)

“La collectionTerre humaine: dans et hors de la littérature" (June 2006)

Articles:

Les "Chroniques éthiopiennes" de Marcel Griaule. L’ethnologie, la littérature et le document en 1934’, Gradhiva, n.s. n° 6, 2007, p. 86-103.

‘"Etudier des états de conscience", la réinvention du terrain par l’ethnologie (1925-1939)’, in L’Homme. Revue française d’anthropologie, n° 179, June 2006, p. 7-61.

 ‘Pourquoi une case vide n’est pas une case blanche. Structuralisme et théorie littéraire’, La Case blanche : théorie littéraire et textes possibles (La Lecture littéraire, n° 8), edited by Marc Escola & Sophie Rabau, Reims: P. U. de Reims, January 2006, p. 71-90.

‘La vocation de l’ethnographe : Leiris, Lévi-Strauss’, International conference proceedings, Ethnologie et Littérature, edited by Yves Vadé, collection « Eurasie », Paris : L’Harmattan, October 2005, p. 23-41.

 ‘Ethnographie / fiction / littérature : quelques confusions et faux paradoxes’, L’Homme. Revue française d’anthropologie (special issue : ‘Vérités de la fiction’, edited by François Flahault and Nathalie Heinich), n° 175-176, Fall 2005, p. 219-232.

‘La Règle du jeu. Fin de partie ?’, Critique, n° 689 (special issue : ‘De Leiris à Derrida : règles du "je"’), October 2004, p. 791-806.

‘"Un quartier de Paris aussi inconnu que l’Amazone". Surréalisme et récit ethnographique’, Les Temps modernes, August-October 2004, n° 628 (special issue : ‘Claude Lévi-Strauss’, edited by Boris Wiseman ), p. 133-153. 

‘Portrait de l’ethnologue en Lazare’, Cahiers de l’Herne, ‘Claude Lévi-Strauss’, edited by Michel Izard , Paris : éditions de L’Herne, September 2004, p. 99-107.

‘L’Adieu au voyage. À propos de Tristes tropiques’, Gradhiva, n° 32, 2002-2, p. 12-26.

 

 

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