David Caron

Professor of French and Women' s Studies Ph.D. in French, 1994, University of California, Irvine

Contact Information:
4218 MLB
Dept. Of Romance Languages and Literatures
812 E. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1275
734.647.2665
Email: dcaron@umich.edu

Website:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rll/deptdir/facultybios/caron.html

Scholarly Interests: Queer Studies, AIDS, 20th- and 21st-century French literature and culture, Holocaust, and Jewish Studies.

Biography: David Caron is Associate Professor of French and Women’s Studies and chair of the LGBTQ Graduate Certificate Program. His current research focuses on the questions of community and universalism. It deals with issues such as the engagement of urban spaces by minoritized groups, the intersections of the public and the private, representations of collective disasters (AIDS, the Holocaust), masculinity, the concepts of neighborhood and family, etc. His next book project is tentatively titled Tact: HIV and the Politics of Re-embodiment and deals with questions of affect and disclosure.

Publications:

My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. (Forthcoming)

AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.

“The Queerness of Male Group Friendship.” Entre hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities in Culture and Theory, eds. Todd Reeser and Lewis Seifert. Dover: University of Delaware Press, 2009. (Forthcoming)

“Shame On Me! or The Naked Truth About Me and Marlene Dietrich.” Gay Shame, eds. David Halperin and Valerie Traub. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. (Forthcoming)