Elena Russo
Professor
17th and 18th Century French Literature
German and Romance Languages and Literatures
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218
Telephone: (410) 516-7622
E-mail: erusso@jhu.edu
Elena Russo has a Licence ès Lettres from the Université de Genève and a Ph.D from Princeton University. She has taught at Wellesley College, Yale University, the University of Virginia and Stanford University.
Her interests are focused on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, cultural and intellectual history of the Enlightenment, sociability, the history of aesthetics and of criticism. Her books include Skeptical Selves: Empiricism and Modernity in the French Novel (1996); La Cour et la ville de la littérature classique aux Lumières (2002) and Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France (2007).
She is currently working on a book on notions of posterity, literary legacy and the historicity of art forms from the 17th to the 19th centuries. This book examines the ways in which authors see time as shaping and inflecting the reception and the value of their works. The purpose is to explore the existence of a relationship between models of transmission of aesthetic value and models of cultural, theological and biological "evolution."
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