Jeff Fort

Jeff Fort is an Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis, with affiliations in Comparative Literature. His academic work bridges literature, philosophy, and film studies.

• Specializes in 20th-century French studies and postwar French cinema
• Active in critical theory and translation
• Extensive publications on Maurice Blanchot, Kafka, and Nietzsche

His research explores intersections between literary theory, German philosophy, and cinematic representations of death and colonialism. Recent projects analyze postwar French filmmakers like Agnès Varda and André Bazin, contextualizing their work within decaying French imperial narratives.

In translation, Fort has rendered key works by Blanchot, Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Derrida into English, including The Imperative to Write (2014) and Copy, Archive, Signature (2024). His scholarship emphasizes the sublime, disfiguration, and the politics of the image.