Lauren Elkin is a PhD candidate in English literature at the Université de Paris VII and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her dissertation is on women's writing in England and France, 1928-1941, concentrating on Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf, and Claude Cahun. She graduated from Barnard College and holds masters degrees from the Sorbonne and New York University.
Originally from New York, she has lived in Paris on and off since 1999 and continuously since 2004. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and her work has appeared in The Guardian, Five Dials, Bookforum, Nextbook, and Upstairs at Duroc. She is the author of the novel FLOATING CITIES (Editions Héloïse d'Ormesson, forthcoming 2011), and is at work on novel number two, set in Paris in 1972 and the present day.
She is a lecturer (MCF) at the Ecole Polytechnique, and also teaches at New York University's Paris campus.
Lauren divides her time between Paris and Hong Kong.
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