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How relevant is Camus in modern academia?

My friend was telling me that Camus and Absurdism is not too relevant in modern philosophical academia. How true is this statement? Is existential/absurd philosophy not popular in academia?
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Camus is a figure around which there is a little cottage industry (There is an Albert Camus Society which has a journal that does one issue a year).  His work, even while he was alive, was outside of the field of philosophy.  He was a journalist, an author, an essayist, etc., but he never even pretended to be an academic philosopher.

You can still find plenty of papers about Camus in Literature departments, but very very very few in straightforward, high-impact anglo-american philosophy journals.