Robert Drummond Lamberton is a classics

Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

 scholar, poet

Poet

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, and translator of ancient and contemporary literature, most notably Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. His work had a strong influence on post-structuralist philosophers such as Jacques Derrida.-Works:...

's Thomas the Obscure

Thomas the Obscure

Thomas the Obscure is a 1941 experimental novel by Maurice Blanchot, his debut novel. It was translated into English in 1973 by Robert D. Lamberton.The protagonists are Thomas and Anne who meet at a country hotel....

. He is currently a professor in the Classics Department at Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis

Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations...

. Professor Lamberton was born in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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 and graduated in 1964 from Harvard College

Harvard College

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 magna cum laude with a degree in Romance languages and literatures. He has a master's (1970) and a doctoral degree in comparative literature from Yale University

Yale University

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 (1979), and has taught at Columbia

Columbia University

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, Princeton

Princeton University

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, and Cornell

Cornell University

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universities. He has written eight books.