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Peter Starr

Expert on the role of the intellectual in society, and paranoia in American culture

Professor of French and Comparative Literature

Contact at: (213) 740-3170 or pstarr@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • the paranoid style in American culture and society
  • literary and cultural theory
  • 19th century French literature
  • psychoanalysis and society
  • the role of the intellectual in society
Additional Information:
    Author of We the Paranoid (multimedia Web-based book, available at iml.usc.edu/dev/starr/demo), Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and its Cultural Aftermath (2005) and Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory after May '68 (1995)

Foreign Languages:
French