John Leavey
Professor
John Leavey received his PhD in interdisciplinary studies from the Graduate Institute for the Liberal Arts of Emory University (1976). He received an NEH grant for his translation of Jacques Derrida’s Glas (published in 1986 by University of Nebraska Press) and Glassary, the introduction and notes to Glas, and was a Fellow (Fall 1989) at the University of Virginia’s Center for Literary and Cultural Change.
Professor Leavey has also translated other works of Derrida (Edmund Husserl’s “Origin of Geometry”: An Introduction, The Archeology of the Frivolous; “Of An Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Philosophy;” the “Geschlecht” series; and “Sauf le nom (Post-Scriptum)” in On the Name) and has written on the theory of translation in Derrida and Blanchot. He is currently working on a book on apostrophe and signatures of translation. He teaches seminars in theory and cultural studies.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4328
- voice: (352) 294-2834
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <jpl@english.ufl.edu>