Elissa Marder is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Acting Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Emory.
Elissa Marder's book Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert) was published by Stanford University Press in 2001. She has also published essays on diverse topics in literature, literary theory, feminism, film, photography and psychoanalysis. She is currently working on a number of projects including: a book on early 19th century French Literature, a collection of essays relating to questions of psychoanalysis, maternity, and technology, and a study of Walter Benjamin’s writings in French.