Philippe Carrard

Born and raised in Switzerland, Philippe Carrard holds a Doctorat es Lettres from the University of Lausanne. He has been teaching since 1968 in the United states, first at the University of Pennsylvania, then at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of California at Irvine and the University of Vermont. He is currently Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College, in the state of New Hampshire. Carrard's specialty is the study of factual, non fictional discourse, e.g., historiography, autobiography and newspaper articles. In this area, after a book on Malraux, he has published studies of current French historiography and of the memoirs of the Frenchmen who volunteered to fight for the Nazis during World War II. Carrard's hobbies are sports and music. Finding nothing wrong about mixing scholarship with pleasure, he has also written articles on such subjects as the structure of sports reports, France's 1998 "world team," and titles of jazz albums. With his wife, Comparative Literature and German Studies Professor Irene Kacandes, Carrard lives part of the year in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and part of the year in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.