Michal Peled Ginsburg

Michal Peled Ginsburg, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Ph.D. Yale. 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: "The Prose of the World" (with Lorri Nandrea), in The Novel, ed. Franco Moretti (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), vol. II, 244-73 (previously published in Italian translation in Il Romanzo); "Narratologie / amatologie: L'art d'aimer et la logique du récit chez Stendhal." L'année stendhalienne, 4 (June 2005), 67-77; "House and Home in Dombey and Son." Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 36 (2005), 57-73; "Dickens and the Scene of Recognition." Partial Answers, 3 (June 2005), 75-97. Forthcoming essays include "Hugo, Dickens, and the 'Social Question'," forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Bleak House; "Madame Bovary à Jérusalem," forthcoming in Europe.

She has recently delivered lectures at the Colloque Flaubert, écrivain at Cerisy-la-Salle (July, 2006) and at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference (October 2006). In the summer of 2006 she also co-organized a conference on "Urbanism, Urbanity, and the 19th century Novel" at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Ginsburg is a past Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin; she is a former director of Northwestern's Program in Comparative Literature and Theory and a former chair of the Department of French and Italian. She is the founder and past co-director of the French Interdisciplinary Group (FIG).

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