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Name
  
Robert Barsky


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Education
  
Brandeis University, McGill University

Books
  
Noam Chomsky, Chomsky effect, Arguing and justifying, Zellig Harris, Zellig Harris: from American

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Robert Franklin Barsky is a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Law School, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is an expert on Noam Chomsky, literary theory, convention refugees, immigration and refugee law, borders, work through the Americas, and Montreal. His biography of Chomsky titled Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent was published in 1997 by MIT Press, followed in 2007 by The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower, and then in 2011 by Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism, all published by MIT Press. His most recent books are Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law (Routledge Law, 2016) and Hatched!, a novel (Sunbury Press, 2016).

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Background

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Barsky was born and raised in Montreal. He attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and after graduating moved to Verbier, Switzerland with the intention of pursuing a career in skiing. In 1985, he returned to Canada to undertake graduate work at McGill University in Montreal, first on Lord Byron and then, following-up on his work as a transcriber of refugee hearings, on the discourse of Convention Refugees for a PhD in Comparative Literature. After the PhD he continued work for the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), before taking up a post-doc with Michel Meyer on rhetoric and argumentation at l'Université libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium.

Work

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Barsky is the author or editor of numerous books on narrative and refugee law ("Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law: The Flight and Plight of Peoples Deemed 'Illegal', Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse Theory and the Convention Refugee Hearing and Arguing and Justifying: Assessing the Convention Refugees' Choice of Moment, Motive and Host Country), on radical theory and practice ("Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism", The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower, Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent and an edition of Anton Pannekoek's Workers Councils) on discourse and literary theory (Introduction à la théorie littéraire, an edited volume with Michael Holquist titled Bakhtin and Otherness, an edited collection with Eric Méchoulan titled The Production of French Criticism, an edited collection titled Marc Angenot and the Scandal of History, an edited collection with Saleem Ali for www.ameriquests.org on "Quests Beyond the Ivory Tower: Public Intellectuals, Academia and the Media") and on translation — in both theory and practice (including the translation of Michel Meyer's Philosophy and the Passions). He has been involved with a range of journals, including SubStance, for which he served as an editor, and he is the founder of 415 South Street, a literary magazine at Brandeis University, Discours social/Social Discourse, and the international on-line journal AmeriQuests. His novel, "Hatched", appeared in 2016.

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Barsky has been the Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor at Yale, a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Toulouse, the Law School of the VU Amsterdam, under the auspices of the Dutch Royal Society, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. He is the Faculty Director of the W.T. Bandy Center, the Founding Director of Quebec and Canadian Studies, and the co-Director, with Daniel Gervais, of the Literature and Law Seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center.


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References

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