Faculty & Staff Directory
Dr. Julia Elsky
Degrees
- PhD, French, Yale University
- BA, French and Art History, Barnard College
Research Interests
- Contemporary French Literature and Culture
- Migration Studies & Refugee Studies
- Jewish Identity in France
- French and Romanian literary and cultural exchanges; European Francophonie
- Translation
- Theater of the Absurd
Courses Taught
- French 250-251: Composition & Conversation, I and II
- French 270-271: Main Currents of French Literature, I and II
- French 319: Romantic Century
- French 390: French & Francophone Cultures & Civilizations
- LITR 200: European Masterpieces
Selected Publications
- “Eugène Ionesco,” in Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature, ed. Michael Y. Bennett, Routledge (2024)
- Writing Occupation: Jewish ÉmigreĢ Voices in Wartime France (Stanford University Press, 2020)
- “L’amitié en guerre: séléctions de la correspondence d’Albert Camus et Elsa Triolet (1940-1943),” Introduction and transcription of selected unpublished letters, Nouvelle Revue Française 640 (January 2020)
- “The Absurd: Postwar Reception and Wartime Echoes at Yale French Studies,” in "Seventy Years of Existentialism," eds. Lauren Du Graf, Julia Elsky, and Clémentine Fauré, special issue, Yale French Studies 135-136 (Fall 2019)
- "Rethinking Ionesco’s Absurd,” PMLA 133, no. 2 (March 2018)
