Hadley Suter

Hadley Suter earned her B.A. in French Literature from Barnard College and her Ph.D. in French & Francophone Studies from UCLA.

As a scholar, she specializes in the intersections of literature and philosophy in the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on Restoration France and the July Monarchy. Her broader research interests include 20th-century literature and culture, and social aesthetics.

Her first book, Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist, is forthcoming with University of Virginia Press. Her second book project will explore transnational solidarities of Mai 68 and its aftermath, in the form of a social biography of Mustapha Khayati, the unsung hero of the Internationale Situationniste.

Apart from her scholarly work, she has written for several arts and culture publications, including the Los Angeles Review of Books and Hyperallergic.

At Barnard, she has taught all levels of French language, as well as upper-division courses including Women of the Left Bank, Introduction to Francophone Literature, Surrealism, and the Enlightenment. She is currently planning a course called The Self and the Real. Prior to Barnard, she taught at Columbia University and UCLA.