Dr. Jean-Pierre Lafouge

Dr. Jean-Pierre LafougeMarquette University

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of Americaforeign.languages@marquette.edu

Associate Professor of French, Emeritus, December 2014

Born in Champagne, France, I studied philosophy at the University of Nancy [Master Degree in Philosophy] and taught Philosophy in several lycées in France from 1962-1976, and French and Philosophy in Morocco from 1968 to 1970. From 1976 to 1982, after having gotten a master degree in career and psychology advising, I worked as a "conseiller d'orientation scolaire et professionnel" [career advisor], in various locations in France, and then became director of the CIO of Savigny-sur-Orge, south of Paris. My academic career took me to the United States where I obtained a Ph.D. in French literature in 1986 from Indiana University, specializing in Nineteenth and Seventeen century French, Orientalist and spiritual Literature.

Education

Ph.D. Indiana University, 1986

Courses Taught

• Language, all levels
• Culture of France
• French Literature, XVI century, XVII century, XIX century, Orientalism, Spirituality, Philosophy, Art

Publications

I am the author of a number of articles dealing with the relationship between Art, Orientalism, Philosophy, Spirituality and Literature. I have published or edited 3 books:

• Étude sur l'orientalisme d'Eugène Fromentin dans ses "Récits Algériens" (Peter Lang Pub Inc, 1989)
• L'Âme indienne (The Indian Soul), Charles Eastman, translation in collaboration with Patrick Laude, Paris: Dervy-Livres (Magnard), 1992, 120 p.
• For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality (World Wisdom, 2006)
• And I worked, the last ten years, on the revision of French to English translations of the writings of a Swiss philosopher, artist and poet of the XXth century (about 20 books and many letters).