Associate Professor of French
General Editor, The Romanic Review
eal1@columbia.edu
514 Philosophy Hall
(212) 854-2500
Elisabeth Ladenson is Associate Professor of French. She studied at Paris VII (DEUG, 1981) and the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1984) before going on to graduate work at Columbia (M.A. 1988, M.Phil., 1992, Ph.D., 1994). She taught at the University of Virginia from 1992 to 2005. At UVA, she directed the Comparative Literature program from 1998-2004. She has also held visiting appointments at Rice University and the University of California, Berkeley. Her main teaching and research interests are in 19th- and 20th-century French and comparative literature; gender studies; queer theory; literary historiography; and cultural studies. Her book Proust's Lesbianism (Cornell UP, 1999) has recently been published in France as Proust lesbien (Epel, trans. Guy le Gaufey, 2004). She has also edited a special issue of GLQ on "Men and Lesbianism" (2001), and published many essays on subjects including Proust, Colette, Mme de Sévigné, James Joyce, and James Bond. Her new book, Dirt for Art's Sake: Literature, Sex and Obscenity, 1857-1966 was published by Cornell in 2006.
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