Faculty & Staff Directory

Dr. Julia Elsky
Title/s: Assistant Professor Undergraduate Program Director
Office #: CC214
Phone: 773.508.2703
E-mail:
About
Undergraduate Program Director of the French section.
Degrees
- PhD, French, Yale University, 2014
- BA, French and Art History, Barnard College, 2007
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: JewishÉmigré Voices in Wartime France (Stanford University Press, forthcoming in 2020), https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31704&bottom_ref=subject
- “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séléctions de la correspondence d’Albert Camus et Elsa Triolet (1940-1943),” Introduction and transcription of selected unpublished letters, Nouvelle Revue Française640 (January 2020)
- “The Absurd: Postwar Reception and Wartime Echoes at Yale French Studies,” in "Seventy Years of Existentialism," Lauren Du Graf, Julia Elsky, and Clémentine Fauré, special issue, Yale French Studies 135-136 (Fall 2019)
- "Rethinking Ionesco’s Absurd: The Bald Sopranoin the Interlingual Context of Vichy and Postwar France,” 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)
- "Eugène Ionesco 1942-1944: Political and Cultural Transfers Between Romania and France," re-inaugural issue of Histoires et sociétés(Spring 2015)
- "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 génialby Irène Némirovsky, in "Irène Némirovsky and Jonathan Littell: Two French Exceptions," special issue, Yale French Studies 121(Spring 2012)