Home page of Alan Astro Ph.D., Yale University, 1985 Professor Modern Languages & Literatures Trinity University One Trinity Place #46 San Antonio, Texas 78212-7200 E-mail: aastro@trinity.edu Telephone: +1.210.999.7533

Research and teaching interests:

· French language, literature (20th-century, especially Beckett and Perec), and civilization (especially history and sociology of French Jewry);

· Spanish language and Latin American literature (A. Reyes and J. L. Borges);

· Yiddish language and literature (Yiddish writers in France and Latin America).

Volumes published (click on links below):

· Yiddish South of the Border, published by University of New Mexico Press;

· Discourses of Jewish Identity in 20th-Century France (Yale French Studies, No. 85);

· Understanding Samuel Beckett, published by University of South Carolina Press.

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