In 2005, Dr. Jason Herbeck joined the faculty at Boise State University where he is the French Section Head in the Department of World Languages. His Ph.D. in French Literature is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where his dissertation was entitled "Awakening Routinists: Consciousness, Quest and Albert Camus". He has published numerous papers, book chapters, translations, and book reviews in the most prestigious journals in his field, in addition to making many conference presentations locally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Herbeck’s work has been honored with Boise State's College of Arts and Sciences Award for Research and Creative Activity in 2012, and has led to his invitation to become the coordinator of the North American chapter of the Société des Études Camusiennes.
Articles & Translations
User-Friendliness and Virtual Reality: A Hypertextual Reading of Alain Mabanckou’s Verre Cassé, Revue Critique de Fixxion Française Contemporaine (2011)
Set in a seedy Congolese bar seemingly far removed from the ever-present influences of globalization...
‘Noces à Tipasa’ d’Albert Camus: Etat des Lieux d’une Relation Précaire, Présence d’Albert Camus (2011)
Translation of “Notebook from the Black Island 2 (Excerpt)” by Saint-John Kauss, The Caribbean Writer (2011)
Contributions to Books
La fortune scénique de Camus en France: Prise de conscience et mise en scène dans L'État de siège : anatomie d'un échec, La passion du théâtre : Camus à la scène (2011)
Le Polar aux Antilles et le cas de Rosalie l’Infâme d’Évelyne Trouillot, Perspectives sur la Littérature Haïtienne Contemporaine (1986-2006) (2011)
When There is No Echo, Haiti Rising: Essays on Haitian History, Culture, and the Earthquake of 2010 (2010)
Detective Narrative Typology: Going Undercover in the French Caribbean, Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World (2009)
Sensibilité Absurde et Eau Sacrée: Albert Camus et la Méditerranée, Albert Camus et le Sacré: Les Actes du 7eme Colloque International de Poitiers sur Albert Camus (2009)
Presentations
From La Lézarde to Failles: Righting/Writing the Faulted House, Haiti in a Globalized Frame, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University (2013)
Herbeck examined the construction of houses (architecture) and the construction of literary works (architexture) in...
Haïti et l’intertexte camusien, 20th & 21st Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium (2012)
Herbeck discussed and attempted to explain the recent profusion of references made to French-Algerian Albert...
Literature of Reconstruction: An Architextural Assessment of Post-Earthquake Haiti, 23rd Annual Haitian Studies Association Conference, University of West Indies, Mona (2011)
In this paper, Herbeck discussed the role and writing of literary works that have been...
« Chien mangé chien » : Le rapport homme-chien dans Yanvalou pour Charlie de Lyonel Trouillot (‘Chen manje chen’: The Man-Dog Relationship in Lyonel Trouillot’s 'Yanvalou pour Charlie'), 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium (2011)