Irvine

UCI Adds Noted Professor: Jacques Derrida, a noted French philosopher, is joining the faculty at UC Irvine, the university announced. Derrida, who is currently director of studies at Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, will begin teaching French and comparative literature at UCI next spring. Derrida is associated with a literary movement known as deconstruction. But Derrida’s work also covers such fields as linguistics, history, art criticism, anthropolgy and psychoanalysis.