Leland de la Durantaye

Leland de la Durantaye (born 1972) is an American writer, and was Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, at Harvard University.^[1] He is currently Professor of English at Claremont McKenna College.^[2] He won the 2011 Holtzbrinck Berlin Prize^[3] and is a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.^[4]

Life

He grew up in East Lansing, Michigan. He traveled and studied in France, Italy, and Germany. He graduated from Cornell University, with an MA and PhD. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.^[5]

His work has appeared in The Village Voice,^[6] Boston Review, ^[7] Cabinet magazine,^[8] The New York Times,^[9] and The Believer magazine.^[10]

Works

• Style Is Matter: The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov. Cornell University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8014-4563-7.
• Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction. Stanford University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-8047-6143-7.
• Will Norman, Duncan White, eds. (2009). "Artistic Selection". Transitional Nabokov. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-03911-525-9.

Translations

• Jacques Jouet (2011). Upstaged. Darlkey Archive. ISBN 978-1-56478-574-9.
• Giorgio Agamben, The Church and Its Reign, Seagull Books

References

1. http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~deladur/
3. http://www.americanacademy.de/home/fellows/current-fellows/person///leland_de_la_durantaye/462/detail/
4. "Holtzbrinck Fellow – Class of Fall 2011, Class of Spring 2012". American Academy in Berlin. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
5. Eliza G. Hornig (March 3, 2005). "The Clothes Aren't It". The Harvard Crimson.
6. http://www.villagevoice.com/authors/leland-de-la-durantaye/
7. http://bostonreview.net/BR36.2/leland_de_la_durantaye_david_foster_wallace.php
8. http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/durantaye.php
9. "Book Review – Funeral For a Dog – By Thomas Pletzinger". The New York Times. March 25, 2011.
10. http://www.believermag.com/contributors/?read=de+la+durantaye,+leland

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