Michal P. Ginsburg
Department of French and Italian

Michal P. Ginsburg, (Ph.D. Yale), Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the French Intedisciplinary Group. Her interests include the 19th-century novel in France and England, contemporary theory, especially psychoanalysis, and narrative theory. She is the author of Flaubert Writing: A Study of Narrative Strategies (1986); Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel 1996); Shattered Vessels: Memory, Identity, and Creation in the Work of David Shahar (with Moshe Ron, 2004); and editor of Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Père Goriot (2000). She was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (1981-82), served as the Humanities Professor from 1995-96, and is a former director of the Program in Comparative Literature and Theory. She served for three years as office of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. Ginsburg is the founder of the Northwestern University Summer program in Arles which she co-directed for two years. She is currently a member of the Chicago-Paris Sister Cities Committee.

m-ginsburg@northwestern.edu