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Email:	ecg@bu.edu
Office:	International Programs 232 Bay State Rd.
Phone:	353-9529
Fax:	353-6246
Office Hours:	By appoint.

Elizabeth Goldsmith

Professor of French

Director or Academic Affairs, International Programs

Education

• BA, University of New Hampshire
• MA, Cornell University
• PhD, Cornell University

Research

Professor Goldsmith's research focuses on the early history of the novel, letter correspondences, women's writing, and travel writing in the early modern period. She teaches courses on French literature in the age of Versailles, Molière and comedy, and introductory literature courses.

Her books include Lettres de femmes (co-edited with Colette Winn, 2005), Publishing Women's Life Stories in France, 1647-1720 (2001), Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France (co-editor: Dena Goodman; 1996), Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature (1989), Exclusive Conversations: the Art of Interaction in Seventeenth-Century France (1988). She co-edited the memoirs of Marie Mancini with Patricia Cholakian (1998) and has published articles on Lafayette, Scudéry, Bussy-Rabutin, Sévigné, and Villedieu.