Dr. Julia Elsky

Degrees

• PhD, French, Yale University, 
• BA, 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

Selected Publications

• Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France (Stanford University Press, 2020) 
• “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séléctions de la correspondence d’Albert Camus et Elsa Triolet (1940-1943),” Introduction and transcription of selected unpublished letters, Nouvelle Revue Française 640 (January 2020)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,” PMLA 133, no. 2 (March 2018)
• "How Do We Proceed with Our Own Internal Conflict?: On the Translation of Mihail Sebastian's For Two Thousand Years," Los Angeles Review of Books (October 18, 2017)
• "Informations juives (1941-1942) ou les ambiguïtés d'un périodique français/yiddish au début de l'Occupation," Archives Juives: Revue d'histoire des Juifs de France 46, no. 2 (Spring 2013)
• Introduction to and translation of Un enfant génial by Irène Némirovsky, in "Irène Némirovsky and Jonathan Littell: Two French Exceptions," special issue, Yale French Studies 121 (Spring 2012)