Richard L. Shryock

Richard Shryock is an associate professor of French at Virginia Tech. His first book Tales of Storytelling (Peter Lang 1993) examines embedded narrative in French 19^th and 20^th centuries. His articles have explored a variety of 19^th- and 20^th-century writers from Joris-Karl Huysmans to Michel Tournier.

The Symbolist writer and art critic Gustave Kahn was the subject of a number of projects: Lettres à Gustave et Rachel Kahn (Nizet, 1996), co-curating with Françoise Lucbert an exhibition “Gustave Kahn (1859-1936): Ecrivain symboliste et critique d’art” (2006-7) at the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme in Paris, as well as co-editing a collection of essays Gustave Kahn: Un Ecrivain engagé (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013).

Shryock has done considerable work on the politics of the French Symbolist movement including extensive work in numerous archives in Europe and the United States.  He is working to complete a manuscript on the topic.

He co-organizes with Gayle Zachmann (Univ. of Florida) and Sophie Lucet (Université de Paris) an annual workshop “Cultural Production in the 19^th Century” held at the Université de Paris.