Philippe Carrard

Born and raised in Switzerland, Philippe Carrard received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Lausanne. After coming to the United States, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of California at Irvine and the University of Vermont. He is now Professor of French Emeritus at the University of Vermont and Visiting Scholar in the Program in Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He has published a book on Malraux, "Malraux ou le récit hybride"; a book on French historiography, "Poetics of the New History: French Historical Discourse from Braudel to Chartier" (of which he wrote a French-language version);a book about the memory of France's military collaboration with Germany during World War II, "The French Who Fought for Hitler: Memories from the Outcasts" (of which he also wrote a French-language version); and a new book about French historiography, "Le Passe mis en texte: Poetique de l'historiographie francaise contemporaine." A specialist of conventions of writing in non-fiction, Carrard has also published several essays on such subjects as the representation of consciousness in biographies, the relations between historiography and narrative, voice in women's history, and metaphors in the "Business" section of the New York Times. His main hobbies are sports and music. Seeing nothing wrong with mixing pleasure and scholarship, he has published articles--among other topics--on the temporal structure of sports reports, the ethnic makeup of the French national soccer team and the titles of the Blue Note jazz albums. Carrard lives in Lebanon, New Hampshire, with his wife, German and Comparative Literature Professor Irene Kacandes.