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Janet Beizer is the C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France at Harvard University's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She previously taught at the University of Virginia and served as a visiting professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She holds degrees from Cornell (B.A., summa cum laude) and Yale (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.), with non-degree studies at the École Normale Supérieure and Université de Grenoble.
Her research focuses on 19th-21st century French literature, including the novel, narrative theory, food studies, psychoanalysis, and women's biographies. Notable works include Ventriloquized Bodies (1994, Scaglione Prize) and Thinking through the Mothers (2009, Cabot Fellowship). She is currently completing a book on culinary and artistic narratives in 19th-century Paris.
Awardees of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, NEH Research Fellowship, and ACLS Fellow among others, she sits on editorial boards for Nineteenth-Century French Studies and Contemporary French Civilization. Her recent work explores Holocaust cookbooks and culinary representation in modern media.
