Smith Research Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Research Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
A conference to launch the two-volume publication of Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle (Éditions Gallimard). This two-volume publication (1600 pages) explores the continuity of women’s writing in French (in France and francophone countries) from the Middle Ages to today. It constitutes the first study of its kind in breadth and depth written by French and American scholars.