Debarati Sanyal
Associate Professor

19th and 20th-century literature and culture, including questions of trauma, testimony, and commitment; Holocaust studies; Baudelaire studies; theories of modernism and modernity; postwar French intellectual culture; memories of the Occupation and the Algerian war.

Publications include:
The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony and the Politics of Form (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)

“A Soccer Match in Auschwitz: Passing Culpability in Holocaust Criticism,” Representations 79 (2002)

“The Tie That Binds: Violent Commerce in Baudelaire’s ‘La Corde’,” Yale French Studies 101 (2002)

“Broken Engagements: Sartre, Camus and the Question of Commitment,” Yale French Studies 98 (2000)

“The Object of Poetry: Commodity and Critique in Baudelaire,” Confrontations: Politics and Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century France (2001)