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Kramer, Max

Dr. Max Kramer is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Saskatchewan and at Baruch College, CUNY. He holds a joint Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University and the Sorbonne (Paris IV). He is a former Fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and former Pensionnaire Étranger of the École Normale Supérieure at Paris. His research focuses on queer representations in 19th- and early 20th-century European poetry, sexuality in postcolonial North African and Middle Eastern literature and society, and on the question of human rights vs. cultural rights. At present he is finishing the revisions on his book “Poésie et inversion: la métaphore queer dans la poésie moderne,” to be published by L’Harmattan. He has published on Rimbaud, Stefan George, modern poetry, queer sexuality in the Muslim world, the novel of adultery, and on translation.