Elissa
Gelfand
Elissa Gelfand, Dorothy Rooke McCulloch Professor of French, is
a specialist in 20th-century French literature and culture. She
is also a member of the the Romance Language and Literatures program
faculty at Mount Holyoke College. Elissa began her career at the
College in 1975 and has taught numerous courses on women writers
of France and the French-speaking world, in addition to courses
in Women's Studies. Some of the topics her courses have addressed
are: mothers and daughters in literature;
representations of female creativity; literary politics and social
contestation; and, the intersections of gender, race, class, and
sexuality in the construction of literary and cinematic heroines.
Her publications include: Imagination in Confinement: Women's Writing
from French Prisons (Cornell UP, 1983) in which she explores the
connections between female criminality and creativity; and, French
Feminist Criticism: Women, Language, and Literature (Garland, 1985),
an examination of theories of gender and textuality. Currently,
she is investigating the relations between gender and ethnicity
in the works of French Jewish women writers of the 1920s and 1930s,
the interwar period in France.
In addition to her research stipend as Dorothy Rooke McCulloch
Professor of French, Elissa has received several faculty research
fellowships, Mellon fellowships, and faculty research grants. She
delivered the remarks for a dinner
held in honor of named chairholders and donors on May 7, 2005.
Education:
B.A., Barnard College; M.A. and Ph.D., Brown University.
Contact Information:
egelfand@mtholyoke.edu
or 413.538.2336
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