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Beauvoir Studies Today

What Place for Literature in a Postdisciplinary World?

We're happy to make available some short texts from our interdisciplinary roundtable, which took place on January 5, 2018 at the Modern Languages Association annual convention in New York City. Click titles below to read individual presentations.

Meryl Altman, Introduction
Alexander Antonopoulos, Sade/Beauvoir Today
María-Isabel Corbí-Sáez, Beauvoir's Reception in France and Spain
Kathryn Sophia Belle, Critiquing Analogical Approaches to Difference in The Second Sex
Kyoo Lee, TransBeauvoir or Beauvoir in Transit: A Note
Qrescent Mali Mason, Simone de Beauvoir's Fiction
Verónica Zebadúa Yánez, Privilege and the Blood of Others

 This occasion marks the relaunch of our participation in the MLA conference, after a hiatus; from now on, we'll have at least one session every year. The topic for 2019 is "Simone de Beauvoir's Fiction: Questions of Privilege" and you can read the call for papers here.