Allan Pasco

Allan H. Pasco came to the University of Kansas in 1989 to occupy the chair of Nineteenth-Century Literature endowed by the Hall Family Foundation. Since arriving, the University has awarded him the Chancellor’s Outstanding Mentor Award and six Cramer Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Research. He has also been the recipient of an Outstanding Civilian Service Award from the US government.

Prof. Pasco specializes primarily in French prose fiction of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, although his interests extend to other forms of literature, to cultural studies, and to critical theory. His most recent books include an extensively edited anthology of French short stories, Nouvelles françaises du dix-neuvième siècle (Rookwood 2006) and Sick Heroes (Exeter 1997), which uses literature, psychology, sociology, and history to suggest that child rearing practices from 1750 to 1850 may have been an important, causative factor in the development of French Romanticism. His "Revolutionary Love" (under contract to Ashgate) uses the methodology developed in Sick Heroes to consider the shift that took place in attitudes toward love during the late eighteenth century. His previous books include The Color-Keys to A la recherche du temps perdu (Droz 1976), Novel Configurations (Summa 1987; reprint 1989, 2nd edition 1994), Balzacian Montage (Toronto 1991; digital reprint 2007), Allusion (Toronto 1994; reprint Rookwood 2002). In 1996, he co-edited a collection of essays, The Play of Terror in Nineteenth-Century France (Delaware). His substantial scholarship of more than sixty articles, essays, and book chapters has also appeared in various volumes and in reviews like PMLA, New Literary History, MLN, Comparative Literature, French Studies, L'Année  Balzacienne, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.

In addition, Professor Pasco has regularly given papers at highly regarded conferences, and has frequently lectured across the United States and abroad, from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand to Exeter College, Oxford and the Sorbonne.

Professor Pasco is on the editorial boards of French Review, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, Lingua Romana, Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, and Summa Publications.

Read Professor Pasco's Curriculum Vitae (pdf)