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Jean-Michel Rabaté (born 1949) is a French Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. One of the founders and curators of Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, he is a managing editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. Since 2008, he has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is currently the president of the American Samuel Beckett Studies Association.

Rabaté has authored or edited 35 books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art, philosophy, and writers like Samuel Beckett, Ezra Pound and James Joyce. Recent books include Lacan Literario (2007), 1913: The cradle of modernism (2007, Chinese translation 2013), The Ethic of the Lie (2008), and Etant donnés: 1) l’art, 2) le crime  (2010), and The Ghosts of Modernity (republished in 2010.) In 2014 he authored The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis.

Before teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Jean-Michel Rabaté spent two decades on the faculty at the University of Burgundy. He has also taught at the University of Manchester and the University of Montréal. He completed both his master’s degree and doctorate at the University of Paris-VIII.