Suleiman was born in Budapest and came to the U.S. with her parents as a child. She is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and professor of comparative literature at Harvard, where she has chaired the Department of Romance...
Academic Degrees: Laurea in Lettere, Diploma di perfezionamento, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”
Research Interests: Renaissance culture; intellectual history; modern and contemporary Italian novel; literature and politics.
Erspamer’s book reviews...
The corporeality of language is primordial in theater: the intersection of body and text is essential to performance. In Western theater traditions, from Ancient Greek tragedy to contemporary French and Francophone political theater, the body, more...
In this paper I analyze a corpus of works, primarily verse, published during and in the aftermath of the French Wars of Religion (1562–1598). This “corpus” displays a markedly corporeal, bodily aspect: its authors conceive of the violent factional...
