Reda Bensmaia

Background

Bensmaia, Reda was born on October 15, 1944 in Kouba, Algeria. Son of Kaddour and Saleha (Benouniche) Bensmaia.

Education

Licence es-lettres, Facultes des lettres, Aix-En-provence, France, 1969; Master of Philosophy, Facultes des lettres, Aix-En-provence, France, 1971; Bachelor, Ecole Pratique, Paris, France, 1977; Doctor of Philosophy, Ecole Pratique, Paris, France, 1981.

Career

Assistant professor Institut d' Etudes Politiques, Algiers, Algeria, 1973-1974, University Algiers, Algeria, 1974-1976; professor philosophy Lycée Français, San Francisco, 1979-1981; associate professor University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1981-1985; director Paris Center for Critical Studies, 1985-1988; associate professor University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1988-1989; professor University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1989—1991, Brown University, Providence, since 1991-2012; Author: The Barthes Effect, 1987, The Year of Passages, 1995, Alger ou la maladie de la mémoire, 1997, Experimental Nations or the invention of the Maghreb, 2003; editor: On Gilles Deleuze, 1989; contributor articles to professional journals.

Achievements

• University Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature
  
  Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
  
  PMLA 's Scaglione Prize for EXPERIMENTAL NATIONS OR THE INVENTIONS OF THE MAGHREB, Princeton U.P., 2003.

Works

• book

  • Bloomsbury - Search

    (Réda Bensmaïa is an outstanding reader of Deleuze who alw...)

Membership

• Modern Language Association

• Council for International Educational Exchange (steering committee, advisory board curriculum)

• Sites (advisory board)

• Lendemains

• Continuum

Interests

• Writing poetry and fiction, music, hiking

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, E. Kant

Connections

Spouse Joelle Proust, February 2, 1947 (divorce June 1989). Spouse Maurizia Natali, October 22, 1995.

Father:

Kaddour

Mother:

Saleha