Books By Christie McDonald - Author

Christie McDonald is the Smith Research Professor of French Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and Research Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. A literary historian, as well as cultural critic and theorist, McDonald is the author or editor of many books and articles on literature, philosophy, anthropology, feminist theory, women's writing, and the arts. Her publications include, among others: Images of Congo: Anne Eisner's Art and Ethnology, 1946-58 (ed., 2005); Painting My World: The Art of Dorothy Eisner (ed., 2009). McDonald's historical discussion of French women writers in context appears in 'The Eighteenth Century: 1715-1793', Femmes et littérature. Une histoire culturelle (Gallimard, 2020).