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Professor Lucey specializes in French literature and culture from the 19th to the 21st centuries. He teaches social and literary criticism, critical theory, and sexuality studies, with a focus on 19th- and 20th-century British literature and culture, as well as 20th-century American literature and culture. His latest book, 'Proust Heard: Novels Ethnography Talk,' features discussions on Balzac, Eliot, Dostoevsky, Woolf, and Sarraute alongside Proust, published by the University of Chicago Press in early 2022. He is currently finishing a book titled 'Thinking Sexuality Novels.' Lucey has translated Didier Eribon’s 'Returning to Reims,' published in 2013, and Édouard Louis's 'The End of Eddy,' published in 2017. A forthcoming translation of Eribon's 'Life, Old Age, Death of a Working-Class Woman' is expected to appear in Spring 2025. He is the founding director of Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, which sponsors lectures, conferences, fellowships, and workshops.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Professor Lucey has made significant contributions to the field of comparative literature and has expertise in various literary and cultural studies.
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