UW, Division of French and Italian Studies

Evelyne Ender’s specialties lie in nineteenth- and twentieth literature. She has written on questions of narrative, on poetics, on gender, as well as, more recently, on issues of mind and consciousness. She is the author of Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria, a book that documents the unfolding history of gender in literary, critical and medical texts. In her new interdisciplinary book, Architexts of Memory: Literature, Science, and Autobiography, she examines major literary works (by Proust, Nerval, Woolf among others) in light of recent neuroscientific models of memory to argue that literature can serve as an experimental laboratory for the study of human remembrance. Her most recent article, on déjà-vu in Nerval and Proust, will appear in Science in Context. Among her other articles are studies of George Sand and eros; Flaubert and Emma Bovary’s mind; Amiel, masculinity, and illness; Proust and desire; Annie Ernaux and narcissism. She is currently working on two book projects, one on theories of the imagination and poetry, the other on literature, gender, and illness. Before joining the faculty of University of Washington, Evelyne Ender taught at Harvard, MIT, Yale as well as the University of Geneva.