Susan Maslan is an Associate Professor of French at UC Berkeley. Her work is situated at the
crossroads of literary, political, and social history. She writes and teaches about seventeenth-
and eighteenth-century theater, the French Revolution, the Enlightenment, and human rights.
In a book tentatively entitled Judaism and Israelites in Early Modern French Literature, she
pursues her interests in the relation between French literature and the Hebrew Bible in figures
as varied as Racine, Rousseau, and Voltaire. She received her PhD. from the Humanities Center
at Johns Hopkins University.