A lecture presented by Professor Elissa Marder

Elissa Marder is the Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University, where she is currently serving as Chair of the Department of French and Italian and as  Interim Director of the Psychoanalytic Studies program. In addition, she is also an international fellow at the London Graduate School.  Her publications include:  Dead Time:  Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) (Stanford UP, 2001); The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction:  Psychoanalysis, Photography, Deconstruction (Fordham UP, 2012 ; Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History), Eds. E.S. Burt, Elissa Marder, Kevin Newmark, Yale French Studies, Vol. 125/126 (2014).  Currently, she is at work on several new projects, including a book tentatively titled Poetry by Other Means (on Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin’s late writings) and a study of early 19th century French Literature:  Revolutionary Perversions.