Korinne Hensley

B.A. in French Literature & Classics from the University of Vermont 

M.A. in French Language & Literatures from Middlebury College in partnership with la Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris 3 

Korinne works on French literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries with particular focus on the novel, fictionality, narrativity, and Proust. 

Her dissertation examines life as literature in the novels of Marcel Proust, Nathalie Sarraute, and Anne Garréta, asking in what ways these works offer us literary modes of understanding our lives and how best they might be lived. 

She is co-chair of the Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford.