Larry Norman
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Classics 115
Phone: 773/702-8793
Email: lnorman@uchicago.edu
Associate Professor, French Literature and the College
Larry F. Norman focuses on the literature of French and European seventeenth and eighteenth century, and theater across the ages. His interests include theater history, book history, intellectual and cultural history, literary criticism and theory, relation between the visual arts and literature.His books and edited collections include: The Public Mirror: Molière and the Social Commerce of Depiction, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999; Editor and introduction, Theatrical Baroque, Chicago: Smart Museum of Art (University of Chicago Press), 2000; Editor and introduction, The Book in the Age of Theater: 1550-1750, Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2001; and 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.
Education
- PhD in French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, 1996