Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early Modern Feminism: ReSisters

About Barbara Abrams

Barbara Abrams is Professor of French and Womens and Gender Studies and is Chair of the Department of History Language and Global Culture at Suffolk University Boston. Her academic work focuses on French literature of the Enlightenment and Womens and Gender Studies. Her recent publications include several articles on womens epistolary writing in eighteenth-century France the Factum as Fiction and a new critical focus on the novels of Marie-Madeleine Bonafon. Her previous books include a multigraph project titled Reframing Rousseaus Le Lévite dEphraïm: The Hebrew Bible Hospitality and Modern Identity (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment) and Le Bizarre and Le Décousu in the Novels and Theoretical Works of Denis Diderot: How the Idea of Marginality Originated in Eighteenth-Century France which examines the background of our modern concept of marginality by focusing on Diderots materialist philosophy.