Beauvoir as a Literary Theorist

The International Simone de Beauvoir Society is happy to present the second session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2023!

Toril Moi and Ashley Scheu will have a conversation on Beauvoir as a Literary Theorist.
Their conversation will be moderated by Marguerite Lacaze. 

About the participants:

Toril Moi is a James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Professor of English, Philosophy and Theatre Studies, and the Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature at Duke University. Among her groundbreaking publications are numerous works on Simone de Beauvoir and feminist and literary theory : Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual (1993) and What is a Woman? And Other Essays (1999). 

Ashley Scheu is an Assistant Professor of French at Eckerd College (USA). She received her Ph.D in French from Duke University in 2011. Her dissertation examined the contribution of Simone de Beauvoir to philosophical literature. Her teaching and research interests are in French language, French literature, philosophy, French existentialism, feminism and women writers.

Marguerite Lacaze is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland (Australia). Her research interests include European philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, especially the emotions, and aesthetics, including philosophy and film.She is currently working on a project on Beauvoir and cinema. She is the Book Review Editor of the journal Simone de Beauvoir Studies.