Pratt Institute

Education

B.A., Dartmouth College; Female Agency in the Social Fictions of Marguerite de Navarre
Ph.D., Univ of Pennsylvania; Subjective Vision and Fragmentation in Late Medieval France, Burgundy, and Flanders

Biography

Suzanne Verderder’s teaching and research focus on the relationship between subjectivity and power, and on the relation between pre-modern periods (medieval, Renaissance, Baroque) and contemporary concerns. Specific fields of study include politics, literature, art, critical theory, philosophy, religion, and psychoanalysis.

She has published on the twelfth-century woman writer, Marie de France, the essayist Michel de Montaigne, and is currently working on a book linking the so-called emergence of the individual in the medieval and Renaissance West to the reorganization of power. She has also translated two books: Charles Enderlin’s The Lost Years, and Jean-Michel Rabate’s The Ethics of the Lie.