Cecile Alduy

Who is Cecile Alduy?

Cecile Alduy is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Stanford University.

Professor Alduy works primarily on French Literature, the history of the body and its representations, and the long and short-term cultural history of gender, letters and politics in France. Areas of interests includes the history and mythology of national and ethnic identities since the Renaissance, the intersection between cultural, literary and medical discourses on gender and the body, poetry and poetics, narrative forms and their discontent, French cinema and contemporary French literature.