Lissa Lincoln was an invited speaker at an international conference at the University of Mumbai, India, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Camus. The conference took place on the 24-25 March and was hosted by the University of Mumbai and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). She also organized and hosted the Regards Croisés seminar on “The Vital and the Mortal”, held at AUP, with invited speakers Alain Prochianz (College de France) and Frédéric Worms (ENS) on April 15.

Lissa Lincoln joined AUP after completing her doctoral work in French Theory and Literature at McGill University. Her dissertation, entitled Albert Camus et la question du juste, presents a Foucaldian reading of normative language in Camus’s fiction, specifically the language of judgment, and its (de)construction through legal discourse. She also holds an M.A. in French Literature from the University of Alberta, the focus of her Master's thesis being a comparative study of XVII century French moralists. She teaches course in law and literature, critical legal theory, literary scandal and censorship, critical theory, French literature, and composition.

Lissa’s research interests focus on law, jurisprudence, legal theory and discourse, particularly in their interrelationship with literature, philosophy, and critical theory. She has presented papers for The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, the Critical Legal Conference, the Australian Association for Law and Literature, the Société d’étude de la littérature française du XXème siècle and the Société des amis camusiens. She has also spoken at Kent Law School and Westminster Law School as well as at conferences organized by the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice, the Ecole nationale de la magistrature and the Ecole normale supérieure Paris. She organized and hosted the international conference "Camus and the Twenty-first Century" at AUP with Lancaster University and the University of Central Lancashire UK, bringing together interdisciplinary scholars from twelve countries. Lissa is currently preparing for publication her book, Albert Camus: Legal Discourse and the Problem of Judgment.

"Discours du juste ou juste un discours ?" in Camus in the Twenty-first Century, A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Lissa Lincoln, Mark Orme and Christine Margerisson. Rodopi Press, forthcoming 2006.

"Joel-Peter Witkin: la photographie d'entre les morts" in Fresh Théorie II "The Black Album", Leo Scheer: Paris, October 2006.

"Chute Libre ou la question du jugement",  in Magazine Littéraire, May 2006.

"Caligula est hanté par la mort : entretien avec Charles Berling", in Magazine Littéraire, May 2006.

"Fresh Theory"  in  Magazine Littéraire, cahier special "essais", December 2005.

"Albert Camus : Engagé solidaire ou révolté solitaire?", Actes du 5ème Colloque International de Poitiers sur Albert Camus, Editions des Amitiés Camusienne, éd. Lionel Dubois, May 2005.

"Discours et jugement chez Albert Camus dans un âge de justification morale", CORE International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 4, no. 1, Fall, 2004.

Review of Johnathan Meztl’s book Prozac on the Couch, Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (Duke University Press, 2003), in La recherche, July 2004.

Review  of  François Cusset’s  book "French Theory: Foucault, Derrida Deleuze & Cie et les mutations de la vie intellectuelle aux Etats-Unis" (La Découverte: Paris, 2003) for Magazine Littéraire, April 2004. 

"Blanchot Made In America", in  Magazine Littéraire, October 2003.

  Professional Papers

"Justice et Jugement dans La Chute d’Albert Camus", paper delivered at the conference "Droit et Littérature XVII-XX siècles", organized by the Institut des Hautes Etudes sur la Justice and the Ecole nationale de la magistrature, held at the Cour de Cassation, Paris,   October, 2006.

"Morality in Translation or Outsiders to the Law?" paper delivered at the annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities at Syracuse University Law School in Syracuse, New York, March, 2006.

"(un)Arrested Justice : Reading Camus", paper presented at  The University of Westminster Law School in London, England  February, 2006.

"Ordre Moral - Ordre Pénal" public debate with CNRS legal scholar Marcela Iacub and magistrate and scholar  Denis Salas around Albert Camus' adaptation of William Faulkner's play "Requiem for a Nun", held at the Theatre Athénée, Paris,  October 2005.

"Albert Camus's Creative resistance to 'Resistance'," paper delivered at the annual Critical Legal Conference, Kent Law School, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, September, 2005.

"Literature on Trial: Legal Discourse in Albert Camus", paper delivered at the annual Law Culture and the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin, March 2005.

"Le Phenomène des Cultural Studies: décadence ou renaissance des études littéraires?" paper delivered at the Colloque de la Société d’étude de la littérature française du XXème siècle "Littérature et Sociologie", Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 , November 2004.

"Madmen and sociopaths or a World Gone Mad? Social Psychosis and the Law in Albert Camus" Paper delivered at the annual Australian Association for Law and Literature, Brisbane, Australia, July, 2004.

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