Gregg Lambert

Gregg Lambert is Founding Director and Dean’s Professor of Humanities, Syracuse University Humanities Center, as well as Project Director/Principal Investigator of the Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor, which includes Cornell University and the University of Rochester.

After completing graduate studies in Comparative Literature and Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley and Irvine, finishing his Ph.D, under the direction of late French philosopher Jacques Derrida and German literary theorist Gabriele Schwab, Professor Lambert joined the Department of English at Syracuse University in 1996, and was later appointed to Full Professor and Chair of English in 2005. In summer of 2008, he was nominated by the faculty of the College of Arts & Sciences to assume the role of Founding Director of the SU Humanities Center, where he now also holds a research appointment as Dean’s Professor of Humanities.

Professor Lambert is internationally renowned for his scholarship on comparative baroque and neo-baroque culture, contemporary issues in critical theory and the academic Humanities, and 20th century continental philosophy, and especially for his writings on the late contemporary French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. He is author of eight books and critical editions, and over fifty articles and scholarly chapters; his various writings have been translated into French, Korean, Japanese, Norwegian, and several other languages. His major works include The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (2002), The Return of the Baroque in Modern Culture (2004), Who’s Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (2008), and the three-volume Jean-Francois Lyotard: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (2006), co-edited with Victor E. Taylor.

Professor Lambert has lectured internationally and has taught as a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Emory University, University of Tasmania, and Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. He has also served as a leader or principal investigator of several major multi-institutional research and interdisciplinary initiatives, including the Mellon CNY Humanities Corridor where he oversees over one hundred faculty working in six different areas (philosophy, linguistics, religion & society, digital humanities, musicology, and visual culture), and more recently, the Trans-Disciplinary Media Studio (with SU School of Architecture) and “The Perpetual Peace Project,” a multi-lateral curatorial initiative co-sponsored with Slought Foundation (Philadelphia), the European Union National Institutes of Culture, and the United Nations University.

Professor Lambert's new and forthcoming book projects include a second volume of the Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, a phenomenological study of post-war political philosophy entitled The Other Person and the Possible World, and a collected volume of his published writings on contemporary continental philosophy and “the return of religion.”

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