Dr. Julia Elsky
Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D., French, Yale University
- B.A., 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
Publications/Research Listings
Book
- (Stanford University Press, 2020)
Articles and Book Chapters
- (with Alissa Schapiro) "Undesirables' in France: Ilse Bing, Luise Straus-Ernst, and German-Jewish Women during the Holocaust," Jewish Ideas of France, d. Nick Underwood and Meredith Scott (Routledge, 2025)
- "The Holocaust in French Jewish Literature of the Twentieth Century," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature (2024)
- “Eugène Ionesco,” in Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature, ed. Michael Y. Bennett, Routledge (2024)
- “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séléctions de la correspondence d’Albert Camus et Elsa Triolet (1940-1943),” Introduction and transcription of selected unpublished letters, Nouvelle Revue Française 640 (January 2020)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: The Bald Soprano in the Interlingual Context of Vichy and Postwar France,” PMLA 133, no. 2 (March 2018)