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William Egginton
Department Chair

German and Romance
Languages and Literatures

3400 N. Charles Street
Dell House 502
Baltimore, MD 21218

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German and Romance
Languages and Literatures
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2850 North Charles Street
Suite 502
Baltimore, MD  21218

Office Phone: 410.516.7227
Fax: 410.516.5358
Email: grll@jhu.edu

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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

Curriculum Vitae

Born in Italy, 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 and aesthetics. 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).




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