10 Facts About Gregg Lambert

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Gregg Lambert was born on 1961 and is an American philosopher and literary theorist, who writes on Baroque and Neo-Baroque cultural history, critical theory and film, the contemporary university, and especially on the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida.

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Between 1984 and 1987, Gregg Lambert was a Fellow in the Center for Hermeneutic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, where he completed a Masters program in Theology and Literature, and graduate studies in French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

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In 1996, Gregg Lambert joined the Department of English at Syracuse University and was later appointed as Chair between 2005 and 2008, before leaving the department to become the founding director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center.

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Since 2008, Gregg Lambert was Principal Investigator of the Central New York Humanities Corridor.

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Gregg Lambert has published over one hundred articles in peer reviewed journals in several different fields, encyclopedias, textbooks and collected volumes.

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Gregg Lambert's writings have been translated into Chinese, French, Korean, Japanese, Norwegian, and other languages.

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Gregg Lambert is co-editor of the academic journal Deleuze and Guattari Studies.

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Gregg Lambert is a noted optimist about the future of the humanities.

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Gregg Lambert is the producer of a film by the same name, which consists of a series of short videos of several philosophers, sociologists, and diplomats speaking about peace.

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Gregg Lambert served on the Advisory Board of the Histories of Violence project.