Professor Sullivan will give the 2026 annual Naomi Schor Memorial Lecture (title TBA).
She is the author of Eleanor of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen (University of Chicago Press, 2023); The Danger of Romance: Truth, Fantasy, and Arthurian Fictions (University of Chicago Press, 2018); The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors (University of Chicago Press, 2011); Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2005); The Interrogation of Joan of Arc (University of Minnesota Press, 1999); and numerous articles on medieval French and Occitan literature
The University has established the Naomi Schor Lecture Fund 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 relation of universalism, human rights, and citizenship to the more particular national, ethnic, and immigrant identities of America and France.
Speakers have included Joan Scott , Francoise Gaspard, , Margaret Phelan, Linda Nochlin, Judith Butler, Alice Kaplan, Patrick Weil, Roya Hakakian, Griselda Pollock, Susan Suleiman, Maurice Samuels, Pierre Saint-Amand, Anne Garetta, Roger Cohen, and Chantal Thomas.