 | Thomas M. Kavanagh |
Thomas M. Kavanagh, newly designated as the Augustus R. Street Professor of French, specializes in French Enlightenment literature and culture as well as French cinema.
He has published books and articles on 18th-century literature, culture and the visual arts, among other topics.
His most recent book, "Dice, Cards, Wheels: A Different History of French Culture," traces the cultural history of gambling in French culture from the Middle Ages to the present. His other books include "Esthetics of the Moment: Literature and Art in the French Enlightenment," "Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance: The Novel and the Culture of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century France" (winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literature Studies in 1994) and "Writing the Truth: Authority and Desire in Rousseau."
He edited "The Limits of Theory" and a volume in the Michigan Romance Studies series titled "Chance, Culture and the Literary Text."
Kavanagh earned his B.S. from Holy Cross College and his M.Ph. and Ph.D. from Yale in 1968 and 1969, respectively. He joined the Yale faculty in 2002 after teaching for nine years at the University of California at Berkeley. He previously taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Colorado and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Kavanagh's honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation and election to the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government.
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