This talk explores the surprising ways in which American institutions and cultural figures shaped 20th-century French literature. Drawing on literary archives and other sources from her recent book New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American, Kippur demonstrates how editors, translators, and publishers in New York contributed, in pivotal and transformational ways, to the production and reception of French writing, both in the U.S. and in France.
Sara Kippur is Professor of French and Chair of French, Francophone, and Italian Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American (Stanford, 2025) and Writing It Twice: Self-translation and the Making of a World Literature in French (Northwestern, 2015), and co-editor of Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture, and Politics Today (Liverpool, 2016). Her articles in the fields of 20th-21st century French literature and translation studies have appeared in such venues as PMLA, MLN, and Yale French Studies.
LOCATION:Barker Center, Room 114 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20261020T203000Z DTEND:20261021T035859Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR