Christie McDonald

Emerita
Smith Professor of French Language and Literature and of Comparative Literature
christie
cmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests: 18th- and 20th-Century French Literature; Literary theory and Cultural Studies; Feminism; Questions of Change in Thought

Academic degrees: B.A., Mount Holyoke College; Ph.D., Yale University

Recently by Christie McDonald:

Images of Congo: Anne Eisner's Art and Ethnography, 1946-1958 Antique Collectors' Club, Ltd. (September 25, 2009)  
Painting My World: The Art of Dorothy Eisner   
Eds. Christie McDonald and Stanley Hoffmann, Rousseau and Freedom, April 2010.
Eds. Christie McDonald and Susan Suleiman, French Global: A New Approach to Literary History, Summer 2010.

Selected Publications: 

The Extravagant Shepherd. A Study of the Pastoral Vision in Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse. SVEC. Banbury, Eng: The Voltaire Foundation. Reprint, 2007. 
Ed., Images of Congo: Anne Eisner's Art and Ethnography, 1946-58 , Milan : 5 Continents Editions, 2005;  
"Hommage to Jacques Derrida," PMLA (March, 2005) 
"Notes on an Unfinished Question," Differences 16.3, A special issue "Derrida's Gift," eds. Elisabeth Weed and Ellen Rooney 
"Notes sur l'entre-deux: de la biographie à l'autobiographie des femmes." Bonheur de la littérature, Presses Universitaires de France (2005) 
Ethnography, Literature and Art in the Work of Anne Eisner (Putnam): Making Sense of Colonial Life in the Ituri Forest,"Research in African Literatures 35/4 (Winter), 2004 
"Banishing Intolerance, Bringing Change," Passages (2003);  "Changing the Stakes: Pornography, Privacy, and the Perils of Democracy," Yale French Studies (2001) 
"The Anxiety of Change" in Eighteenth-Century Literary History (l999); "The Proustian Revolution", The Cambridge Companion (1997) 
Transformations in Personhood and Culture After Theory, co-ed. (l994) 
The Proustian Fabric (1991) 
The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation, ed. (1988) 
Dispositions: Quatre essais sur les écrits de Rousseau,Mallarmé, Proust et Derrida autour de textes et musique (1986) 
The Dialogue of Writing: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Literature (1985)