Jean-Pierre Cauvin

Jean-Pierre Cauvin was schooled at the Lycée Francais de New York, interspersed with a few years in Paris lycées. He obtained his baccalauréat in 1954. His undergraduate education was at Princeton University, B.A. degree in 1957, magna cum laude, with a graduate degree in French Literature: Princeton University, Ph.D. 1968. He began teaching at U.T. in 1972.

His areas of interest and specialization include French poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries, Surrealism, the history of the Arts in France, the cultural and intellectual origins of World War II, France in World War II. Currently, he is conducting research involving materials in the HRC, translation and oral testing for a federal agency, gardening (like Candide), and doing landscaping work around his home.