Dr. Jordan Stump
Professor of French; Section Head
1137 Oldfather Hall
402-472-6068
jstump2@unl.edu
Jordan Stump, Professor (Ph.D. Illinois, 1992), is the author of articles on the Marquis de Sade, Georges Perec, Marie Redonnet, and Jean-Philippe Toussaint, among others, and of Naming and Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau (University of Nebraska Press, 1998). He has also published translations of novels by Marie Redonnet, Eric Chevillard, Patrick Modiano, Christian Oster, Antoine Volodine, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jules Verne, and Honoré de Balzac. His translation of Claude Simon's The Jardin des Plantes (Northwestern University Press, 2001) was awarded the French-American Foundation's annual translation prize in 2001, and in the fall of 2006 he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His interests include literary theory, the contemporary novel, the ontology of fiction, and literary translation.
