Robert Harvey (literary theorist)

He has written on Samuel Beckett, Primo Levi, Michel Foucault, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marguerite Duras, Marcel Duchamp and Michel Deguy and has translated Lyotard, Deguy, Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricœur, and other French thinkers.

His most recent books are Parmi les gisants: penser le cimetière (Presses Universitaires de France, 2024) and Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Harvey served as chair of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook until 2017, when these disciplines were summarily eliminated by "strategic" (i.e. corporate) decision.

Prior to that, he had chaired the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory[1] from 2002 until 2015, and was a Program Director at the Collège International de Philosophie[2] in Paris, from 2001 until 2007.

He returned to academia in 1980 and completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley[3] in 1988 on the ethical thought of Jean-Paul Sartre.