Rodolphe Gasché - Curriculum Vitae#
HIGHER EDUCATION
- Magister Artium (with distinctions) in Philosophy, Sociology, and History of Religions, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 1972.
- Ph.D., (Summa Cum Laude) in Philosophy, Sociology and Romance Languages, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 1976
- Additional studies at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, France (1969-1971, and 1973-1975).
POSITIONS HELD
- Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Hermeneutik, Tutor, 1968 1969.
- Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Wissenschaftlicher Tutor, 1971 1972.
- The Johns Hopkins University, Humanities Center, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1975 (Spring) 1976.
- The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Romance Languages, Visiting Associate Professor, 1976 1978.
- State University of New York at Buffalo, Program in Comparative Literature, Associate Professor, 1978 1981.
- State University of New York at Buffalo, Program in Comparative Literature, Professor, 1981-199l
- State University of New York at Buffalo, Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative terature, l99l
- Adjunct Professor in Philosophy (SUNY Buffalo) (1998-2001)
- Adjunct Professor in Philosophy (University of Memphis) (1998-2001)
- SUNY Distinguished Professor (November 2007-)
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Fellowship from the Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale, Paris (France) (1969 - 1971)
- Dissertation Fellowship from the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) (1973 - 1975)
- Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, 1976 - 1977 (declined)
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1981 - 1982
- Invited Guest Scholar at the "Zentrum für Literaturforschung," Berlin (Germany), June/July, 1997; February 1999, June 2012, June 2013, June 2015. July 2018.
- Invited Guest Scholar at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of the Sciences, Berlin (Germany), June/July 1999, October 2001, June/July 2003, June/July 2005, June/July 2007, June/July 2009, June/July 2011, July 2017.
- Humanities Institute Residential Research Fellowship (Fall 2009).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL)
- Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
- Executive Committee of the Division on Philosophical Approaches to Literature at the Modern Language Association (1982 86)
- Director of the 1987 Session of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy (July 13 August 7)
- Member on Current Research Committee of SPEP, 1986 1987
- Advisory Board (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat) of the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, Germany. (Dec. 2007-16)
- Hiring Committee at the Humboldt University Berlin (Germany) for a professorship in “European history of culture and knowledge,” and directorship of the Zentrum für Literatur- and Kulturforschung (2014-15).
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
- Editorial Board of MLN, 1977 78
- Editorial Board of Glyph, 1977 81
- Editorial Board of Interdiziplinäre Phaenomenologie, Kyoto, Japan, 2003-
- Editorial Board of Derrida Today (2008-)
- Editorial Board of The New Centennial Review, (2000-)
- Advisory Board of Modern Fiction Studies, l992-1995
- Advisory Board of The Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 2006-
- Advisory Board of Esthetica. Tijdschrift voor Kunst en Filosofie (2008-)
- Advisory Editor of A Companion to Continental Philosophy, ed. S. Critchley and W.R. Schroeder, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998
- Member of the Scientific Committee of La Deleuziana (2014-)
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the book series “Macula: Phenomenology-Hermeneutics-Deconstruction”, Milano: Editions Mimesis (2014-)
- Principal Advisor for Book Series “Literature ...in Theory,” eds. D. Johnson & S. Michaelson, SUNY Press (2014-)