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

• “Eugène Ionesco,” in Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature, ed. Michael Y. Bennett, Routledge (2024)
• (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séléctions de la correspondence d’Albert Camus et Elsa Triolet (1940-1943),” Introduction and transcription of selected unpublished letters, Nouvelle Revue Française 640 (January 2020)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)