Susan Suleiman, Harvard University
Lecture Title: How to Become a Famous Woman Writer in Interwar France: Irene Nemirovsky’s Choices, 1920-1939
Location: WHC, Rm 208, 53 Wall Street
Sponsored by the Naomi Schor Lecture Funds, the Whitney Humanities Center and the Department of French
The Naomi Schor Lecture Fund was established in 2002 to honor and perpetuate the memory of Professor Schor by bringing to the Yale community distinguished speakers on the broad range of topics represented by her teaching and research. Naomi Schor was a scholar of nineteenth-century French literature and culture, whose writings focused on the novel, but whose interests spanned a much wider area, including feminist theory, women’s and gender studies, the visual arts, interdisciplinary approaches to literature and history and the relationship of universalism human rights, and citizenship to the more particular national ethnic, and immigrant identities of America and France. Guests have included Joan Scott , Francoise Gaspard, , Margaret Phelan, Linda Nochlin, Judith Butler, Alice Kaplan,Patrick Weil, Roya Hakakian, and Griselda Pollock.