Marc Blanchard (12 October 1942 – 8 November 2009) was a professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis.
The family returned to Paris after the war, where he earned a degree at the Sorbonne in 1965, in Agrégation de lettres classiques (Romance Languages, Comparative Literature, and Classics-“Sciences Humaines”).
Though he was trained as a classics scholar, Blanchard's longstanding research interests were in Semiotics and the Critique of Culture.
His articles and books included: La Révolution et les Mots, Description: Sign, Self, Desire: Critical Theory in the Wake of Semiotics, In Search of the City and Trois portraits de Montaigne.
He published more than seventy articles in major journals on topics of Theory, European, Latin American, Caribbean and especially Cuban Literature.