Lewin presents at colloquium

Judith Lewin, assistant professor of English and member of the programs in Women's and Gender Studies and Religious Studies, gave a paper at the 31st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium in Austin, Texas.

"Sublimity, Virginity, Infinity: Balzac's Belle Juive as Virgin Magdalene Aux Camélias" describes Honoré de Balzac's Jewish courtesan, whom he marks with symbols of a paradoxical "sexual virginity."