Susan Rubin Suleiman

Suleiman is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and professor of comparative literature. Her books include Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre (1983), Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde (1990), Risking Who One Is: Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature (1994), the memoir Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (1996), and several edited volumes. Crises of Memory and the Second World War was published in 2006. Suleiman has organized numerousconferences involving CES, including: “Sartre and His Others” in 2005 and “Global French” in 2007 (coorganized with C. McDonald). Suleiman has recently held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute and the Center for Advanced Study in Oslo. In 2009–2010, she is on sabbatical from Harvard and is the Shapiro Senior Scholarin-Residence at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. Her co-edited book with Christie McDonald, French Literary History: A Global Approach, will be published in 2010.