Part of the conference The Idea of France

Colloquium on French Global : A New Approach to Literary History (2010) (esp. introduction and articles by Profs. Suleiman and McDonald) The suggested reading for the colloquium discussion for Suleiman/McDonald’s French Global the introduction and the articles by the editors and by Lawrence Kritzman.
Introduced by Giuseppina Mecchia (University of Pittsburgh).

McDonald is Smith Professor of French Language and Literature in the department of romance languages and literatures and professor of comparative literature at Harvard. A former chair of the department of romance languages and literatures, she is currently co-master of Mather House. Her books include The Extravagant Shepherd (1973, 2007), Dispositions (1986), The Dialogue of Writing (1986), and The Proustian Fabric (1991); The Ear of the Other (edited in 1988), Transformations: The Languages of Culture and Personhood after Theory (co-edited in 1994). She published Images of Congo in 2005 and Painting My World in 2009. Rousseau and Freedom, edited with Hoffmann, and French Global: A New Approach to Literary History, edited with Suleiman, have both been published in 2010.

Suleiman is C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and professor of comparative literature at Harvard, where she has chaired the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures and the Department of Comparative Literature. Her books include Authoritarian Fictions: The Ideological Novel as a Literary Genre (1983), Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde (1990), Risking Who One Is: Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature (1994), the memoir Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (1996), and Crises of Memory and the Second World War (2006). She has edited several volumes, including most recently French Global: A New Approach to Literary History (with C. McDonald). Suleiman has won many honors, including the Radcliffe Medal for Distinguished Achievement (1990), and a decoration by the French Government as Officer of the Order of Academic Palms (Palmes Académiques) in 1992. She has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, and been an invited Fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest and at the Center for Advanced Study of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo; in 2005-06 she was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute. During the 2009-2010 academic year, she was the invited Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.