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Eric Gans

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Fields of interest: Literature since 1800; Critical Theory; Generative Anthropology; Film

Eric Gans is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the UCLA Department of French & Francophone Studies whose primary research interests include Generative Anthropology / Originary Thinking, literary theory, and 19th-century French literature.

Education

  • Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (with distinction)
  • M.A., Romance Languages, Johns Hopkins University
  • B.A., French, Columbia College (summa cum laude)

Selected Publications

Articles

  • “Clouzot’s Cruel Crow.” p.o.v.: A Danish Journal of Film Studies 20 (12/2005): 51-58.
  • “John Rawls’s Originary Theory of Justice.” Contagion 13 (2006): 149-58.
  • “White Guilt, Past and Future.” Anthropoetics  12, 2 (Fall 2006/Winter 2007) (http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1202/wg): 8 pp.
  • “Qu’est-ce que la littérature, aujourd’hui?” New Literary History 38, 1 (Winter 2007): 33-41.
  • “On Firstness” (45-57) and “Generative Anthropology and Bronx Romanticism” (153-164). The Originary Hypothesis: A Minimal Proposal for Humanistic Inquiry (ed. Adam Katz), Davies Publishing Group, 2007.
  • “Generative Anthropology: A New Way of Thinking?” Anthropoetics 13, 2 (Special GATE Issue, Fall 2007). (http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1302/1302gans)
  • “La priméité: de l’origine à l’Holocauste et au-delà.” In René Girard, Paris: L’Herne, 2008, 255-60.
  • “Religion et connaissance.” Intellectica, 50 (2008/3): 61-72.
  • “René et moi.” In For René Girard, ed. Goodhart et al., East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2009, 19-25.
  • “A Brief Analysis of Deconstruction.” Dialectic (U of Utah School of Architecture), 1 (2011-12): 31-34.
  • “Eric Gans traduit Les Fleurs du Mal de Baudelaire.” [Introduction and translations of twelve sonnets.] Po&sie 144 (Fall 2013): 146-58.
  • “On the One Medium.” In Mimesis, Movies, and Media, Bloomsbury (2015): 7-15.
  • “WW II and the Victimary Era.” In Apocalypse Deferred: Girard and Japan. Notre Dame UP (2017): 41-54.

Honors and Awards

  • Prix de la langue française – Académie Française 1977
  • Chevalier des Palmes Académiques 1982

Professional Activities

  • Founded Anthropoetics: The Electronic Journal of Generative Anthropology, May 1995.
  • WWW column, “Chronicles of Love and Resentment”, July 1995 – present; 550+ Chronicles through June 2017.
  • Keynote speaker at eleven annual Generative Anthropology Summer Conferences: UBC – Vancouver (2007), Chapman U – Orange, CA (2008), Ottawa U (2009), Westminster College – Salt Lake City and Brigham Young U – Provo, Utah (2010), High Point U., NC (2011), International Christian University, Tokyo (2012), UCLA (2013), Victoria, B.C. (2014), High Point U (2015), Kinjo Gakuin U, Nagoya, Japan (2016), Stockholm U, Sweden (2017).