Karyna Szmurlo (Ph.D. Rutgers University), Professor of French, has published on 18th- and 19th-century women writers, and modern literature. Her research is strongly interdisciplinary, combining history, feminist theory, philosophy of language, and the arts. She is the editor of The Novel's Seductions: Staël's Corinne in Critical Inquiry (Bucknell University Press, 1999), coeditor of Germaine de Staël: Crossing the Borders (Rutgers University Press, 1991), and Staël's bibliographer in A Critical Bibliography of French Literature (Syracuse University Press, 1993). Among her writings on the French Revolution and language theory are "Pour une poétique des langues nationales" in Le Groupe de Coppet et l'Europe (Paris: Touzot, 1994) and "Vers la théorie du performatif" in Le Groupe de Coppet et le monde moderne (Genève: Droz, 1998). She also contributed to Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Modern Language Studies, George Sand Studies, French Forum, Cahiers staëliens, and Romance Quarterly. She serves on the Executive Board of the Germaine de Staël Society for Revolutionary and Romantic Studies, an allied organization of the American Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies.