David Robert Wills (born 1953) is a noted translator of

Jacques Derrida Jacques Derrida (; ; born Jackie Élie Derrida;Peeters (2013), pp. 12–13. See also 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French Algerian philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in a number of his texts, ...

, including ''The Gift of Death'', ''Right of Inspection'', ''Counterpath'', and ''The Animal That Therefore I Am''. Currently, Wills is a professor of French at Brown University. To date much of Wills's own original and published work "has concentrated on literary theory, especially the work of Derrida, film theory, comparative literature" with an emphasis on how and where we think through (and with) technology and politics. As noted, Wills's writing "rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology." Wills began teaching at

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in 1998 and moved to Brown University in 2013. He has degrees from the

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, and received his doctorate from the Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Selected bibliography

;Translator *Works by Jacques Derrida: **Derrida/Marie-Françoise Plissart, ''Right of Inspection'' (Monacelli, 1998). ** Catherine Malabou/Derrida, ''Counterpath'' (Stanford, 2004). **''The Gift of Death'' (2nd edition) & ''Literature in Secret'' (Chicago, 2008, st edition, 1995 **''The Animal That Therefore I Am'' (Fordham, 2008) **''Theory and Practice'' (Chicago, 2018) ;Single author *''Self (De)construct: Writing and the Surrealist Text'' (James Cook University Press, 1985). *''Prosthesis'' (Stanford, 1995; Editions Galilée, 1997, 1998 uthor's translation. *''Matchbook: Essays in Deconstruction'' (Stanford, 2005). *''Dorsality: Thinking Back Through Technology and Politics'' (Minnesota, 2008) ;Co-author *''Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory'' (with Peter Brunette, Princeton, 1989). *''Writing Pynchon: Strategies in Textual Analysis'' (with Alec McHoul, Illinois, 1990). ;Editor/co-editor *''Deconstruction and the Visual Arts'' (with Peter Brunette, Cambridge, 1994) *''Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou'' (Cambridge, 2000) ;Essays and articles *"Thinking Back: Towards Technology, via Dorsality," ''Parallax'' 10, 3 (2004). *"Techneology or the Discourse of Speed," in Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra (eds.), ''The Prosthetic Impulse'' (MIT, 2006). *"Notes Toward a Requiem or the Music of Memory," ''Mosaic'' 39, 3 (2006). *"Dorsal Chances: An Interview with David Wills," ''Parallax'' 13, 4 (2007).

References

External links

Will's review of Derrida's ''The Beast and the Sovereign Volume 1''

Wills describes this piece as "adapted from - and translated from - my participation in two roundtable discussions on translation"
B. Buseyne et al, An Interview with David Wills (2001)
as published in: N. Roelens and W. Strauven, Homo Orthopedicus (Paris: Harmattan, 2001) 1953 births Living people French–English translators State University of New York faculty University at Albany, SUNY faculty University of Auckland alumni University of Paris alumni Translators of Jacques Derrida American translators Brown University faculty {{US-translator-stub