# Christie McDonald Emerita Smith Professor of French Language and Literature and of Comparative Literature ![christie](/sites/g/files/omnuum8296/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-04/mcdonald.jpg?itok=UFGS3JXY) email **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](http://www.amazon.com/Painting-My-World-Dorothy-Eisner/dp/1851495851/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221507599&sr=1-2) Antique Collectors' Club, Ltd. (September 25, 2009) [Painting My World: The Art of Dorothy Eisner](http://www.amazon.com/Painting-My-World-Dorothy-Eisner/dp/1851495851/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1221507599&sr=1-2) 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) - ## Department Role [Emeriti / Research Professor](/people/role/emeriti) - ## Language [French](/language/french)