User:Mark K. Jensen

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I live in Tacoma, Washington. Photograph available. [1] I was born in 1951 in Bethesda, Maryland. I am married and have one son. E-mail: jensenmk@plu.edu

My areas of specialization as a faculty member at Pacific Lutheran University are 19th-century French literature and French. I have taught courses in 18th-century and 20th-century French literature as well, as well as in modern European literature generally. More broadly, I majored in history at Princeton and am interested in modern European and American history, with additional interests in world history, the philosophy of history, and the history of ideas. I have many other interests too numerous to list here.

After briefly studying law, I pursued literary interests while working in a San Francisco bookstore and decided to return to graduate school in 1980. I hold a Ph.D. in French literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Always attracted to reference works, I find Wikipedia and the democratization of knowledge it represents interesting from every point of view.

In recent years I have become politically active in the peace movement at the local level, and am involved in several groups in Pierce County, Washington. This has led me to develop new interests: national security, 20th-century U.S. history, media studies, etc.

I am fluent in French and an experienced translator from French to English with have a particular interest in translating the work of the French literary historian and critic Paul Bénichou (1908-2001). I have published a translation of Bénichou's Le Sacre de l'écrivain (1973) entitled The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830 (U. Nebraska, 1999), and am currently at work on a translation of Le Temps des prophètes (1977).

I maintain a home page. [2] I also am active on the web on the pages of United for Peace of Pierce County [3] and People for Peace, Justice, and Healing. [4]

All my contributions to Wikipedia I freely assign to the public domain.