Lecture by Professor Elisabeth Ladenson

Lecture Title: “Proust, Antisemitism, and Jewish Humor.”

Elisabeth Ladenson is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and General Editor of Romanic Review.

Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century French and comparative literature, gender studies, and cultural history. She is the author of Proust’s Lesbianism (Cornell, 1999) and Dirt for Art’s Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita (Cornell, 2007). She has published widely in journals including Yale French Studies, The Yale Review, and The London Review of Books, and is currently working on a book titled Proust in the Margins: Jew, Homosexual, Snob.