User:Mark K. Jensen

I reside in Tacoma, Washington. I was born in 1951 in Bethesda, Maryland. I am married and have one son.

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 abandoned the study of law to pursue literary interests while working in a San Francisco bookstore and decided to return to graduate school in 1980, finishing in 1989 a Ph.D. French literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

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), have completed a translation of Le temps des prophètes (1977), and am working on a translation of Les mages romantiques (1985).