Marc Blanchard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Marc Blanchard

American academic

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1942

Place of Birth: Portugal

Date of Death: 08-Nov-2009

Profession: professor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Marc Blanchard

  • Marc Blanchard (12 October 1942 – 8 November 2009) was a professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis.
  • He was born in 1942 to a French father and French Jewish mother who were fleeing Nazi persecution and was brought up in Argentina and Egypt.
  • The family returned to Paris after the war, where he earned a degree at the Sorbonne in 1965, in AgrĂ©gation de lettres classiques (Romance Languages, Comparative Literature, and Classics-“Sciences Humaines”).
  • Prior to joining the University of California campus in 1971, Blanchard taught at Yale and Columbia.
  • Though he was trained as a classics scholar, Blanchard's longstanding research interests were in Semiotics and the Critique of Culture. His articles and books included: La RĂ©volution et les Mots, Description: Sign, Self, Desire: Critical Theory in the Wake of Semiotics, In Search of the City and Trois portraits de Montaigne.
  • He published more than seventy articles in major journals on topics of Theory, European, Latin American, Caribbean and especially Cuban Literature.
  • He lectured at New York University (NYU), CCNY, UNC Chapel Hill, Stanford, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985. Blanchard also ran a study abroad course in Cuba, one of the few programs in the country which go to this embargoed country.
  • Students must file special waivers through the U.S.
  • State Department.
  • Blanchard and Raquel Scherr created and taught a program entitled Americans in Paris, a month-long program in Paris run through the UC Davis Summer Abroad program.
  • The program educated hundreds of students and was last taught by Blanchard/Scherr in 2008. Marc Blanchard died on November 8, 2009 after a long battle with cancer.
  • He was married with one daughter.

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