Dean’s Professor of Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A.
Founding Director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center and the Central New York Humanities Corridor
Completing his Ph.D, in Comparative Literature and Philosophy in 1995 at the University of California, Irvine, under the direction of French philosopher Jacques Derrida, Lambert first joined the English department at Syracuse University in 1996. In 2008 he was appointed as the founding director of the Syracuse University Humanities Center and Principal Investigator of the Central New York Humanities Corridor, which he served until 2019. He is currently the Dean's Professor of Humanities in the Humanities Center and teaches courses for the Philosophy department during the spring.
Professor Lambert’s published works cover a wide range of disciplines and topics, including: the history of literary criticism and theory, contemporary continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, and issues in the general Humanities, and contemporary academic institutions. To date he has published over eighteen books and critical editions, and more than one hundred articles in peer reviewed journals in several different fields, encyclopedias, textbooks and collected volumes. His published writings have appeared in Chinese, French, Korean, Japanese, Norwegian, Czech and other languages.
Professor Lambert is internationally renowned for his scholarship in continental philosophy and comparative literature, including baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics, contemporary issues in critical theory and the academic Humanities, and; especially for his many published writings on the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida.
He frequently lectures and teaches internationally and has been invited as a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University, Ewha University, Seoul National University. In 2010-2011 he was appointed as a BK21 Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Sungkyunkwan University and, between 2016-2021, as an International Scholar (IS) at Kyung-Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
Currently, he is engaged in directing a new phase of the Perpetual Peace Project in response to the war in the Ukraine, and is completing a second volume of Philosophy After Friendship (Minnesota, 2017) on the figure of the partisan philosopher.