Domna Stanton

Domna Stanton, Distinguished Professor of French at the Graduate Center, CUNY, is the author of The Dynamics of Gender in Early-Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing (2014). She is now working on the two-volume Les femmes en littérature, to be published by Gallimard in 2017, and to which she is contributing 150 pages on 17th-century women.

Aside from The Aristocrat as Art, her revised Columbia dissertation on the honnête homme and the dandy, Stanton is the editor of several volumes, including The Female Autograph; The Defiant Muse; and Histories of Sexuality: From Aristotle to AIDS. She coedited “A Woman who Defends all the Person of her Sex”: Selected Philosophical and Moral Writings of Gabrielle Suchon (Chicago UP 2010), and Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by 17th-century Women Writers (Toronto, 2011)-- both received citations from scholarly organizations and from Choice.

Stanton was president of the Modern Language Association in 2005 and editor of PMLA from 1992 to 1997; she co-edited with Judith Butler a special issue of PMLA (Fall, 2006) on human rights and the humanities, an emerging field that have engaged her teaching and writing, over and beyond the areas of early-modern women, gender and sexuality; and feminist and other critical theories.

Stanton sits on several non profit boards and committees, including Columbia University's Maison Française, the Modern Lnaugage Association, and Scholars at Risk; Human Rights Watch, Planned Parenthood, and Parkinson's Disease Foundation; The Century Association and Gotham Chamber Opera. In November 2014, she was named Commissioner to the New York City Commission on Human Rights.