Michal Peled Ginsburg

Michal Peled Ginsburg, Ph.D. Yale, is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Comparative Literary Studies. Her research interests include the nineteenth-century novel, especially in France, England, and the US; Israeli fiction; critical theory, psychoanalysis, and narrative theory.

She is the author of Flaubert Writing: A Study in Narrative Strategies (Stanford University Press, 1986), Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Stanford UP, 1996), Shattered Vessels: Memory, Identity, and Creation in the Work of David Shahar (with Moshe Ron; SUNY Press 2004; Hebrew version Hakibbutz Hameuhad, 2004), and the editor of Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Old Goriot (MLA, 2000). She is currently working on a comparative book project dealing with nineteenth century narratives (primarily short stories and novellas) that center around a portrait.

Recent publications include: "Hugo, Dickens, and the 'Social Question'," in Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Bleak House; “Narratives of Survival,” in Novel: A Forum on Fiction; “On Portraits, Painters, and Women: Balzac’s La Maison du chat-qui-pelote and James’s ‘Glasses’,” Forthcoming, Comparative Literature; and the entry on “The 19th century French Novel“ for the forthcoming Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.

She has recently delivered lectures at the MLA conference, “Jamsian Strands” conference, the ACLA conference, and the “Dickens, Victorian Culture, Uneasy Pleasures” Conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ginsburg is a past Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin; she is a former chair of the Department of French and Italian as well as the founder and past co-director of the French Interdisciplinary Group (FIG).

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