Prince (born November 7, 1942, in Alexandria, Egypt) is an American academic and literary theoretician.
He is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Pennsylvania,[1] where he is also affiliated with the department of Linguistics and the Program in Comparative Literature and with the Annenberg School for Communication.
[3] Prince's writings in French and English have been translated into many other languages, and he has been a visiting professor at universities in France, Belgium, Italy, Australia, and Canada, as well as the United States.
He is the General Editor of the "Stages" series at the University of Nebraska Press,[4] and he serves on more than a dozen other editorial and advisory boards.
In 2013 he received the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative,[5] an organization that he presided over in 2007.