Janet L. Beizer

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Janet L. Beizer
Alma mater Cornell University (B.A.)
Yale University (PhD)
OccupationAcademic
Employer Harvard University

Janet L. Beizer is an American academic. She is a professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. [1] Beizer is a scholar of French literature with a focus on the 19th and early 20th centuries. [2] She completed her undergraduate degree at Cornell University and received her Ph.D. from Yale University. [1]

Beizer has authored several books including Ventriloquized Bodies and Thinking through the Mothers . She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her scholarly contributions to European and Latin American Literature in 2016. [3] In that same year she was named a Marta Sutton Weeks Fellow by the Stanford Humanities Center. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Janet Beizer". Department of Romance Languages & Literatures. Harvard University. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  2. Wakefield, Tanu (2017-01-20). "Stanford Humanities Center fellow Q&A: Janet Beizer on the history of leftovers". Stanford Humanities. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
  3. "JANET L. BEIZER". Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  4. Anonymous (2016-04-18). "Stanford Humanities Center Names 2016-17 Fellows". Stanford Humanities. Retrieved 2019-01-21.