Research Fields: 20th-Century French Literature and Culture; Avant-Garde Movements and Theories of the Avant-Garde; Feminist Theory; Problems of Narrative; Writers and Politics; Problems of Memory; The Holocaust.
Education: A.B., Barnard College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Selected Works: The Némirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France (2016); Eds. Christie McDonald and Susan Suleiman, French Global: A New Approach to Literary History, (2010);Crises of Memory and the Second World War (2006); Co-editor, Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology(2003); Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances (1998); Budapest Diary: In search of the Motherbook (1996).
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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