Liliane Kerjan


Liliane Kerjan was a French historian. She specialized in American literature.

Biography

Kerjan earned a degree in English from Rennes 2 University and a doctoral degree from Blaise Pascal University in 1977. She would go on to serve as Vice-President of Rennes 2 and subsequently was Rector of the Académie de Limoges from 2000 to 2005. As part of the Fulbright Program, she was a visiting professor at the University of San Diego and Yale University.
In 1986, Kerjan began her collaboration with . In 2010, she published a biography on Tennessee Williams and another on Arthur Miller in 2012. She was also President of the from 2007 to 2020. In 2020, she published Ils ont fait un rêve, a biography on African American authors Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin.
Liliane Kerjan died on 28 June 2021 at the age of 81.

Awards and honours

  • In 2010, she received the Prix Grand Ouest from the Association des écrivains de l'Ouest.

Books

  • Albee
  • Le théâtre d'Edward Albee
  • L'égalité aux États-Unis. Mythes et Réalités
  • L'Amérique urbaine des années soixante
  • La consommation culturelle dans le monde anglophone
  • Voix de femmes à la scène, à l'écran
  • Dix-huit ans, vive la liberté !
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Ce que je sais d'Arthur Miller
  • Fitzgerald : Le désenchanté
  • Truman Capote
  • George Washington
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • ''Ils ont fait un rêve : Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison et James Baldwin : trois grands écrivains contre le racisme''

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