A professor of French who served seven years as department head at Mississippi State University before his retirement in 2015, Jack Louis Jordan (1952-2017) specialized in twentieth-century French literature, with an emphasis on Marcel Proust. He has written many articles on both Proust and the French literature of the Caribbean and is the author of Marcel Proust's "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu": A Search for Certainty (1993) and the chapter "The Unconscious" in The Cambridge Companion to Proust (2001).