Lawrence D. Kritzman
Lawrence D. Krtizman, an American scholar, is the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in Humanities and Professor of French, Italian and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He has written works on, edited works on, or given lectures on Foucault, Kristeva, Sartre, Camus, Derrida, Montaigne, and others, focusing especially on twentieth-century French philosophy. Kritzman has also penned articles for Le Monde, and has been interviewed on Radio France. In 1990, the French government made him a knight in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques; in 1994, he was made an officer. In 2000, he was awarded the Ordre National du Mérite, the second-highest civilian award accorded in France, by Jacques Chirac. He also heads the Institute for European Studies at Dartmouth. In the past, he has taught at Rutgers, Stanford, Harvard, and Yale.
Kritzman received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A. from Middlebury College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.