Susan Rubin Suleiman is the C. Douglas Dillon Research Professor (Emerita) of the Civilization of France and Research Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Born in Budapest, she emigrated to the United States as a child with her parents. She obtained her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from Harvard University, and joined the Harvard faculty in 1981. Among her dozen books and more than 100 articles, Suleiman has written The Némirovsky Question: The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in 20th-Century France (Yale University Press). The recipient of numerous honors, Suleiman has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, received France’s highest honor the Légion d’Honneur, and was a Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.