David Harrison

DAVID HARRISON (Institut ’95) is Professor of French at Grinnell College with expertise in the literature and culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  He is the principal translator and co-editor (with Hélène Bilis, Jean-Vincent Blanchard, and Hélène Visentin) of La Princesse de Clèves by Lafayette: A New Translation an Bilingual Pedagogical Edition for the Digital Age (Lever Press, 2022). He is currently finishing a new, rhymed verse translation of the play Le Favori by Madame de Villedieu.  A specialist of the Mémoires of the Duke de Saint-Simon, he is one of the few Americans to have had his work published in the Cahiers Saint-Simon.  His work has also appeared in PMLA, Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, and The French Review.   He is a graduate of Swarthmore College (B.A.) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.A., Ph.D).