Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 14:04:58 -0600 (CST)
Subject: MB: Hello


Other lists I have joined encourage newcomers to introduce themselves, so,
although I would suppose that a Blanchot list would be different in many
respects, I will do so.  About 23 years ago I completed a disseration on
Blanchot's fiction at the Johns Hopkins University.  I never published it. 
While my first advisor on the project was Rene Girard, it was Eugenio
Donato who provided most of the guidance.  By the time I actually defended
the thing, Dennis Sullivan and Richard Macksey were the advisors.  Shortly
after finishing the degree (and after publishing a couple of reviews of
Francoise Collin's book, one in _Diacritics_ and one in _MLN_), I left the
academe (I had been teaching at SUNY Binghamton), my position having been
cut and the future of language departments having gone particularly bleak
at that moment (1973).  I have since kept my distance, only once venturing
to speak to one of Macksey's seminars about _Le Tres-Haut_.  Given my
distance from the topic, I will probably confine myself to lurking here,
but I am very curious about how Blanchot is being read today. 

John Blegen
Director
Glenview Public Library
Glenview, IL
blegen-AT-gpl.glenview.lib.il.us