Larry Norman
Associate Professor of French Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies and the College; Deputy Provost of the Arts
Office: Classics 115
lnorman@uchicago.edu
Larry F. Norman focuses on the literature of French and European seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and theater across the ages. His interests include theater history, book history, intellectual and cultural history, literary criticism and theory, and the relation between the visual arts and literature. He is the author of The Public Mirror: Molière and the Social Commerce of Depiction (University of Chicago Press, 1999). Books that he has edited or co-edited include: Theatrical Baroque (Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Press, 2000); The Book in the Age of Theater: 1550-1750 (University of Chicago Library, 2001); co-editor (with Philippe Desan and Richard Strier), Du Spectateur au lecteur: Imprimer la scène aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (Paris: Schena/Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2002); and co-editor (with Glenn Most and Sophie Rabau), Révolutions homériques (Edizioni della Normale, Pisa, forthcoming 2009). He is currently completing a book on the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
Education
- PhD in French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, 1996