Leo Bersani

Leo Bersani (16 April 1931-20 February 2022) was an American literary theorist and Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. He also taught at Wellesley College and Rutgers University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. Bersani is known for his path-breaking work entitled Homos. His contribution to gender and sexuality theories is noteworthy. Most of his research is a significant contribution in the area of homosexuality and queer theory.

Bibliography

• Marcel Proust: The Fictions of Life and of Art (Oxford Univ. Press, 1965)
• Balzac to Beckett (Oxford Univ. Press, 1970)
• A Future for Astyanax (Little, Brown, 1976)
• Baudelaire and Freud (Univ. California Press, 1977)
• The Death of Stéphane Mallarmé (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982)
• The Forms of Violence (with Ulysses Dutoit, Schocken Books, N.Y., 1985)
• The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art (Columbia University Press, 1986)
• The Culture of Redemption (Harvard Univ. Press, 1990)
• Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko and Resnais (with Ulysse Dutoit, Harvard Univ. Press, 1993);
• Homos (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995)
• Caravaggio's Secrets (with Ulysse Dutoit, MIT Press, 1998)
• Caravaggio (with Ulysse Dutoit, British Film Institute, 1999)
• Forming Couples: Godard's Contempt (with Ulysse Dutoit, Legenda/European Humanities Research Centre, 2003)
• Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity (with Ulysse Dutoit, British Film Institute, 2004)
• Intimacies (with Adam Phillips, Univ. Chicago Press, 2008)
• Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays (Univ. Chicago Press, 2010)
• Thoughts and Things (Univ. Chicago Press, 2015)
• Receptive Bodies (Univ. Chicago Press, 2018)

External links

• Leo Bersani – French Department – University of California, Berkeley
• New York Times review of The Culture of Redemption
• "A Conversation with Leo Bersani" conducted along with Tim Dean, Hal Foster, and Kaja Silverman, October vol. 82 (Autumn 1997)