Peter Tracey Connor

Peter Tracey Connor

Research Interests
Twentieth-Century French literature and philosophy

Peter Connor was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA, 1984), and the University of California at Berkeley (PhD, 1991). His teaching and research interests include twentieth century French literature, literary theory, contemporary French philosophy, translation, psychoanalysis. He is the author of Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) and the translator of numerous books and articles by French philosophers, including Georges Bataille's The Tears of Eros (San Francisco: City Lights Press, 1989) and Jean-Luc Nancy's The Inoperative Community (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989).