The Center for Jewish Civilization invites you to a conversation on Dr. Andrew Sobanet’s new book Generation Stalin with Dr. Sobanet, Dr. James Collins, and Dr. Susan Rubin Suleiman.

Dr. Andrew Sobanet is an Associate Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of politics and literature. His research interests include the twentieth-century novel, the contemporary novel, autobiography, non-fiction film, feature film, and twentieth-century history. He is the author of Jail Sentences: Representing Prison in Twentieth-Century French Fiction (U of Nebraska Press, 2008) and Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality (Indiana University Press, 2018). He has also published widely on Vichy France. Since 2011, he has been Associate Editor of the journal Contemporary French Civilization. He served as chair of the Department of French and Francophone studies from 2009 to 2015, and is serving as interim department chair for the current academic year.

Dr. James Collins was born in Boston and grew up in Hartford, CT, learning basketball on the local blacktop. He has been at Georgetown since 1985, becoming a Professor of History in 1992. He’s been the Director of Graduate Studies in History (1991-95) and the Chair of the History Dept (2000-03). In October 2014, Georgetown honored him with the Presidential Scholar-Teacher Award.

Dr. Susan Rubin Suleiman is the C. Douglas Dillon Research Professor of the Civilization of France and Research Professor of Comparative Literature. She was born in Budapest and emigrated to the U.S. as a child with her parents. She obtained her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has been on the Harvard faculty since 1981, where she is currently the C. Douglas Dillon Research Professor of the Civilization of France and Research Professor of Comparative Literature. She retired from full-time teaching in 2015.

Light refreshments will be served prior to the event. RSVP is encouraged.

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