Elissa Marder

Elissa Marder is a Professor in the Department of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University. Her research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century French, British, and American literature, with emphasis on literary theory, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and visual culture. She holds an office in N413 Callaway and can be reached at emarder@emory.edu.

Her work interrogates intersections between literary form and psychological/philosophical concepts, particularly through the lens of deconstruction and feminist critique. Major investigations include analyses of motherhood in mechanical reproduction contexts, temporal disorders in modernist works, and psychoanalytic frameworks in Baudelaire’s poetry. Recent projects explore climate denial (2023), language pathologies (2022), and interdisciplinary critiques of power structures (2021).

Publications include monographs like *The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction* (2012) and edited volumes such as *Time for Baudelaire* (2014). Her scholarship bridges literary analysis with continental philosophy, offering innovative readings of canonical texts through contemporary theoretical frameworks.