Louisa Siefert Author

Adrianna M. Paliyenko is the Arnold Bernhard Professor in Arts and Humanities at Colby College. She is the author of Genius Envy: Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801-1900 (Penn State UP, 2016), published in French under the title, Envie de génie: La contribution des femmes à l’histoire de la poésie française (XIXe siècle) (PURH, 2020). Paliyenko’s research on nineteenth-century French poetry, culture, and colonial narratives includes theories of canon formation, genius, gender, race, medicine, and science. She has edited volumes on nineteenth-century French women writers Madame A. Cashin, Anaïs Ségalas, Marie Krysinska, and Louisa Siefert.

Norman R. Shapiro was professor of romance languages and literatures and Distinguished Professor of Literary Translation at Wesleyan University. Among his many translations are Four Farces by Georges Feydeau, which was nominated for a National Book Award; The Fabulists French: Verse Fables of Nine Centuries, named Distinguished Book of the Year by the American Literary Translator’s Association; One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine, which won the Modern Language Association of America’s Scaglione Prize; and Charles Baudelaire: Selected Poems from “Les Fleurs du mal.” (Photo credit: Harvard Gazette)