Seminar
20 January 2009

 Susan Suleiman is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. 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), Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (1996), and the edited volumes Exile and Creativity (1998) and Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology (2003). Her latest book, Crises of Memory and the Second World War, was published in 2006. Suleiman has organized numerous conferences, including the international conference on “Sartre and His Others” in April of 2005, which appeared as a special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies in the fall of 2006; for December 2007, she and Christie McDonald are co-organizing the conference on “France in the World: A New Approach to French Literary History.” In 2005–2006, Suleiman was a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute, and in May of 2006 she was named a Walter Channing Cabot fellow at Harvard. In June 2007, she was once again an invited fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, where she spent a semester in 1993.