Claudia Brodsky Lacour is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Graduate Studies at Princeton University. She received her undergraduate degree in English and comparative literature magna cum laude from Harvard University and her Master’s and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Yale University.

Prior to taking her position at Princeton, Professor Lacour taught at Yale University and Swarthmore College. She has received fellowships from the Danforth Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation for the Humanities.

Professor Lacour has published widely in both English and German on literary criticism and understanding. She is the author of Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origin of Modern Philosophy and Birth of a Nation’Hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case, co-edited with Toni Morrison.

Professor Lacour’s areas of interest include the Enlightenment and Romanticism, philosophy and literary theory, aesthetics and epistemology, Spanish and English Baroque, and Latin American literature.