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Professor and Chair, Department of World Languages

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.

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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.

Present	French Section Head, Boise State University ‐ Department of World Languages
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Present	Professor, Boise State University ‐ Department of World Languages
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French and Francophone Language and Literature

Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and French-Caribbean Literatures and Cultures and Albert Camus: Philosophy and Lit

2012 - College of Arts and Sciences Award for Research and Creative Activity, Boise State University
2011 - Phi Kappa Phi, Boise State University
2008 - Research Grant, Idaho Humanities Council, National Endowment for the Humanities

Intermediate French I
Advanced French Grammar & Pronunciation
Advanced French Conversation and Composition
Survey of French Literature
Of Minds and Men: Camus & Sartre
Albert Camus’s Absurd Heroes
Senior Seminar: 21st-Century French-Caribbean Literature
Senior Seminar: Haiti
Senior Seminar: 21st-Century French and Francophone Novel
Senior Seminar: Caribbean Detective Novel
Special Topics: 19th-Century French Literature
Business French
French Culture
The Francophone World Today: Africa and the Antilles
The Francophone World Today: The French Caribbean

E-mail: jasonherbeck@boisestate.edu

Articles (15)

Le Malentendu and the Failure of Recognition, or Why “You Should Never Play Games” (Jason Herbeck) Journal of Modern Literature (2022)

In order to understand the critical failure of Le Malentendu, this study examines the philosophical tension in the play between the absurd and revolt. These super-imposed philosophies will serve to link, on a spatio-geographic level, ...

Ancient Surgeons: A Characterization of Mesopotamian Surgical Practices (Alison J. White, Jason Herbeck, JoAnn Scurlock, et al.) The American Journal of Surgery (2022)

Background: The Ancient Mesopotamian civilization, the earliest known, emerged in the fourth millennium BCE. While the advent of medicine is established, there is little understanding of surgery's origins. We sought to describe the characteristics and ...

L’Histoire Passée Sous Silence?: Pour un État des Lieux d’une Relation (Coloniale) Muette dans «La Femme Adultère» (Jason Herbeck) Présence D’Albert Camus (2021)

Regardless of whether or not Camus was indeed influenced in his writing by the colonial myth, the general absence of the Arab in his works is nonetheless striking. For Edward Saïd, this perceived shortcoming can ...

History, Humanity, and the Literary Construction of Haiti in Évelyne Trouillot’s Works (Jason Herbeck) Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International (2019)

Évelyne Trouillot’s novels, short stories, poetry, children’s stories, and play—not to mention her interviews, op. ed. pieces, and academic articles—introduce us to chapters of Haiti’s history spanning roughly two hundred and fifty years. From a ...

Intertexts of the Ecological: Literary Space Revisited in Yanick Lahens's Bain de Lune (Jason Herbeck) The Journal of Haitian Studies (2017)

The opening lines of Yanick Lahens’s Bain de lune (2014) find an unidentified narrator lying on a beach not far from the coastal community of Anse Bleue, staring at the worn, muddy boots of the ...

The Coward in Albert Camus's Carnets (Jason Herbeck) Présence d’Albert Camus (2016)

Camus evokes the traits of the coward on the very first page of his Notebook I (May 1935). Twenty-one years old at the time, he describes the conditions of poverty which constitute “the true sense ...

Entretien avec Fabienne Kanor (Jason Herbeck) The French Review (2013)

D’origine martiniquaise, Fabienne Kanor est devenue romancière etréalisatrice après une première carrière dans le journalisme. Dans cet entretien, elle parle surtout de son deuxième roman, Humus(2007), qui raconte à voix multiples les récits de quatorze ...

User-Friendliness and Virtual Reality: A Hypertextual Reading of Alain Mabanckou’s Verre Cassé (Jason Herbeck) Revue Critique de Fixxion Française Contemporaine (2011)

Set in a seedy Congolese bar seemingly far removed from the ever-present influences of globalization (aside perhaps from the occasional copy of Paris-Match), Alain Mabanckou's Verre Cassé (2005)2 does not have a single foot- or ...

‘Noces à Tipasa’ d’Albert Camus: etat des lieux d’une relation précaire (Jason Herbeck) Présence d’Albert Camus (2011)

‘La Femme Adultère’ d’Albert Camus: Anatomie d’une Absence (Jason Herbeck) Francophone Postcolonial Studies (2009)

L'absence, peut-être paradoxalement, occupe une place manifeste et protéiforme dans l'œuvre d'Albert Camus. Tantôt évoquée en terms d'étrangeté et d'exil, tantôt confrontée dans un paysage ascète et indifférent ou face à un être silencieux, elle ...

Interview with Evelyne Trouillot (Entretien avec Evelyne Trouillot) (Jason Herbeck) The French Review (2009)

An interview with Haitian author Evelyne Trouillot is presented. When asked if her novel "Rosalie l'Infâme" could be seen as a detective story, Trouillot answers that she has always been a passionate reader of this ...

Raphaël Confiant’s Le Meurtre du Samedi-Gloria: Crime and Testimony (Jason Herbeck) The French Review (2008)

This paper proposes a close reading of Inspector Dorval’s closed case from both a narratological and socio-cultural perspective, arguing that what may at first blush appear to be irrelevant clues—information that, decidedly unrelated to Beausoleil’s ...

Endeavours of Authenticity: Architectural/Architextual Expression in Traversée de la Mangrove (Jason Herbeck) Dalhousie French Studies (2007)

Au nom du discours amoureux: Une Etude glissantienne de Gouverneurs de la rosée et Romeo and Juliet (Jason Herbeck) Mosaic (2005)

Si tous ces changements tendant vers une culture composite s'opèrent à partir de la mort des protagonistes, il est néanmoins important de signaler chez Glissant que le système en rhizome exige qu'on ne meure pas. ...

Gouverneurs de la... mangrove : une étude de sources littéraires antillaises (Jason Herbeck) Dalhousie French Studies (2005)

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Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean (Jason Herbeck) Faculty & Staff Authored Books (2017)

Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. ...

A Writers Topography: Space and Place in the Life and Works of Albert Camus (Jason Herbeck and Vincent Grégoire) Faculty & Staff Authored Books (2015)

Albert Camus sustained a lifelong awareness of and appreciation for what he termed le visage de ce monde—the face of this earth. This original collection of essays examines how topography influenced Camus’s understanding and expression ...

La Rivière Comme Métaphore de l’Identité Chez Marcel Proust et Édouard Glissant (Margaret Gray and Jason Herbeck) Entre-Textes: Dialogues Littéraires et Culturels (2017)

Time Sources in Proust and Glissant (Margaret Gray and Jason Herbeck) Reading Communities: A Dialogical Approach to French and Francophone Literature (2016)

Is it going out on a limb to read a French novelist from the Belle Époque alongside a novelist, poet and post-colonial theoretician from Martinique, when the two are separated in space by an ocean ...

Afterword (Jason Herbeck) Memory at Bay (2015)

When, after twenty-five years in exile, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier unexpectedly returned to Haiti on January 16, 2011, the polarized yet strikingly muted public response was in some ways eerily reminiscent of public reaction during ...

Bridging Consciousness: A Topographical Reading of La Chute (Jason Herbeck) A Writer's Topography: Space and Place in the Life and Works of Albert Camus (2015)

Near the end of Le Mythe de Sisyphe, Camus summarizes the eponymous Greek hero’s plight on the mountainside as follows: “La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un cœur d’homme” (OC I, 304). ...

Quand Camus ne fait pas de théâtre (Jason Herbeck) Cahiers de l'Herne, Vol. 103: Albert Camus (2013)

Herbeck illustrates the lexical and ideological similarities with which Camus wrote about his two greatest passions — the theatre and soccer — over the course of his lifetime. He illustrates how, when Camus found himself ...

Le Polar aux Antilles et le cas de Rosalie l’Infâme d’Évelyne Trouillot (Jason Herbeck) Écrits d'Haïti : perspectives sur la littérature haïtienne contemporaine (1986-2006) (2011)

Prise de conscience et mise en scène dans L'État de siège: Anatomie d'un échec (Jason Herbeck) La passion du théâtre: Camus à la scène (2011)

Lorsque la générale de L'État de siège eut lieu le 27 octobre 1948 au théâtre Marigny, l'accueil pour le moins défavorable ne s'accorda certes guère aux attentes. Comme l'explique Roger Grenier (198) : «Ce fut ...

When There is No Echo (Jason Herbeck) Haiti Rising: Essays on Haitian History, Culture, and the Earthquake of 2010 (2010)