Ben Stoltzfus

¬Ben Stoltzfus is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, and French at the University of California, Riverside. He is a novelist, translator, literary critic and inter-arts scholar. He has published many articles on twentieth-century French, English, and American writers, 12 monographs of literary criticism on Chennevière, Robbe-Grillet, Gide, Lacan, and others, as well as books on Hemingway, Magritte, D.H.Lawrence, and Jasper Johns. An award-winning writer, he has received a fair share: Fulbright, Camargo, Gradiva, Humanities, Creative Arts, and MLA. He has published six novels and two collections of short stories. Romoland, a pictonovel, written in collaboration with Judith Palmer, the artist, was published in 2017. The collection Falling and Other Stories was published in 2018. The novel, Dumpster for God’s Sake, was published in 2019. Alliecats, text by Ben Stoltzfus, illustrations by Allie Kirschner, his granddaughter. Alliecats is a collection of 53 graphic tales and word-puns about cats beginning with the prefix cat: catalog, catsup, catwalk, etc., published in 2019. The novel, Transgression: Hitler, Mirka, Mireille, and Me, was published in 2022. 2022 also saw the publication of D.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective. Stoltzfus lives in Riverside, California, with his artist wife, Judith Palmer.