Alain Toumayan

Emeritus Professor of French and Francophone Studies (In memoriam 10/2023)

Education

Ph.D., Yale University

M.A., M.Phil.

B.A., University of Pennsylvania 

Biography

Toumayan concentrates on 19th- and 20th-century French literature. He has published a monograph on the problem of evil in Barbey d'Aurevilly, Huysmans and Baudelaire, various articles on 19th- and 20th-century subjects, and a Festschrift on literary generations. In 2003, he published Encountering the Other: The Artwork and the Problem of Difference in Blanchot and Levinas. In 2000, Toumayan was appointed Director of Notre Dame's Program in Philosophy and Literature.