Thomas Trezise

Thomas Trezise is a Professor in the Department of French & Italian at Princeton University since 1986, previously teaching at Dartmouth College. He holds degrees from Cornell (B.A. summa cum laude) and Yale (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.), with additional studies at the University of Paris and Strasbourg. His research focuses on modern French literature, continental philosophy, trauma studies, and Holocaust representation. Current projects include a narrative on secondary trauma stemming from his spouse Susan Brison's sexual assault experience, and studies on Caribbean Francophone literature from Martinique and Guadeloupe.

Teaching emphasizes 20th-century French literature, Holocaust representation across media, and graduate seminars on post-structuralism, Levinasian ethics, Blanchot's thought, and trauma literature. His publications include seminal works on Samuel Beckett and Holocaust testimony interpretation.

His editorial contributions include translating Paul de Man's Allegories of Reading and co-translating Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's The Subject of Philosophy, as well as editing a special issue of Yale French Studies on Levinas.