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Effie Rentzou is a Professor of French and Italian at Princeton University and Director of the Program in European Cultural Studies. She holds a BA in Classics from the University of Athens, a Maîtrise and PhD in French Literature from the Sorbonne (2002). Previously, she served as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Princeton before joining the faculty. Her research focuses on modernism, the avant-garde, surrealism, and the intersection of politics and art. She is a founding member and former president of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism.
Her major works include Concepts of the World (2022), analyzing avant-garde internationalism, and Littérature malgré elle (2010), examining surrealism’s literary transformation. She co-edited 1913: The Year of French Modernism (2020). Her current project, Surrealism Against Fascism, explores antifascist art in 1930s–40s France. She has curated exhibitions at institutions like the Musée du Quai Branly and contributed to catalogues for major museums.
She was awarded the French government’s Chevalier in l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2023) for contributions to French culture. Her teaching and research bridge literature, art history, and political theory, emphasizing the avant-garde’s global legacy and antifascist activism.
