Elizabeth Ladenson – “On Speaking Out and Shutting UP”
April 5, 2019
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Location
Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall lower level
Address
701 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607
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Elisabeth Ladenson, Columbia University
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Chair, Department of French and Romance Philology
This lecture will center on the topics of censorship and self-censorship, what these terms are taken to mean and how they are used (and sometimes abused). It will consider the role of censorship and self-censorship in the ways we both express ourselves and hold back from expressing ourselves in professional and private contexts.
Reception to follow.
Part of the graduate student conference
Converging Narratives: Speak OUT! – Shut UP!
Elisabeth Ladenson is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and General Editor of Romanic Review. She studied at Paris VII (DEUG, 1981) and the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1984) before going on to graduate work at Columbia (M.A. 1988, M.Phil., 1992, Ph.D., 1994). She has also held visiting appointments at Rice University and the University of California, Berkeley. Her main teaching and research interests are in 19th- and 20th-century French and comparative literature; gender studies; cultural history and historiography. Her book Proust’s Lesbianism (Cornell UP, 1999) has been translated into French as Proust lesbien (Epel, trans. Guy le Gaufey, 2004) and into Spanish as Lesbianismo en Proust (Me Cayó el Veinte, trans. Martín Pérez, 2010). She has also edited a special issue of GLQ on “Men and Lesbianism” (2001), and published essays on a wide range of subjects in journals including Yale French Studies, The Yale Review, and The London Review of Books. Her book Dirt for Art’s Sake: Books on Trial from Lolita to Madame Bovary was published by Cornell in 2007. She is currently writing a book about Colette.
Date posted
Jun 18, 2020
Date updated
Sep 25, 2020