Marie Prunières

Research Interests: 17th- and 18th-century literature in French and Italian; historicism (old and new); contemporary breakup and divorce memoirs; encounters between literature, the arts, and creative practice. 

Marie's dissertation examines the literary significance of breakups in French and Italian texts from the early modern era, including Madame de Lafayette and Choderlos de Laclos. Throughout her time at Harvard, she has been a teaching fellow for French20, French40 and Ital111 - Italian Cinema: Ten Masterpieces, with works by Fellini, Visconti and Lina Wertmüller, as well as for Humanities10: A Humanities Colloquium: From Homer and Sappho to Joyce. She received a teaching award from the Harvard Griffin GSAS in 2022 and from the Harvard Undergraduate Association in 2024. Within the department, she has been a member of the Choix Goncourt US, the De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies and successively the Humanities and International Student representative on the Graduate Student Council.