Elsa Stephan

Biography

Elsa Stéphan is originally from France. She studied Literature in classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles before entering La Sorbonne school of communications (CELSA), where she majored in Media Studies. She then received a M.A in political science from l’Institut d’Études Politiques (“Sciences Po”), in Strasbourg, France and earned her Ph.D in French Literature from Tulane University. Before joining the faculty at Columbia, she taught in the French department at Smith College.

Research Interest

Science and Technology Studies; Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century French literature