Michaela Hulstyn
SLE Associate Director
Stanford Introductory Studies
Bio
Michaela Hulstyn is the Associate Director of Structured Liberal Education (SLE), a first-year residential education program at Stanford University.
She is the author of Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness (University of Toronto Press, 2022.) Her research interests center on 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature, phenomenology of the self and intersubjectivity, cognitive approaches to transcultural literature, and literature as ethical philosophy. Her work has appeared in MLN, Philosophy and Literature, and Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, among other places.
Michaela previously held academic appointments at Florida State University and Reed College.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Stanford Introductory Studies
2025-26 Courses
- Stranger Things: Unnatural Narrative as Radical Philosophy
FRENCH 278, FRENCH 378 (Spr) - Structured Liberal Education
SLE 91 (Aut) - Structured Liberal Education
SLE 92 (Win) - Structured Liberal Education
SLE 93 (Spr) -
Independent Studies (1)
- Directed Reading
SLE 99 (Aut, Win)
- Directed Reading
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Prior Year Courses
2024-25 Courses
- Structured Liberal Education
SLE 91 (Aut) - Structured Liberal Education
SLE 92 (Win) - Structured Liberal Education
SLE 93 (Spr)
2023-24 Courses
- Structured Liberal Education
SLE 91 (Aut) - Structured Liberal Education
SLE 92 (Win)
2022-23 Courses
- Structured Liberal Education
SLE 91 (Aut) - Structured Liberal Education
SLE 92 (Win) - Structured Liberal Education
SLE 93 (Spr)
- Structured Liberal Education
All Publications
- Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness University of Toronto Press. 2022
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Moving Visions: Matisse's Odalisques, Sebbar's<i> Sherazade</i> , and Imagery as Emulation
MFS-MODERN FICTION STUDIES
2022; 68 (4): 708-727
View details for DOI 10.1353/mfs.2022.0048
View details for Web of Science ID 000936485000001
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Djibril Diop Mambety, Sony Labou Tansi, and the Recourse to the Imaginary
CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES
2019; 23 (2): 180-187
View details for DOI 10.1080/17409292.2019.1646017
View details for Web of Science ID 000499713300009
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Unselfing as Disruption in Paul Valery and Charlotte Delbo: the Self and Other in Pain
MLN
2016; 131 (4): 1113-1129
View details for DOI 10.1353/mln.2016.0079
View details for Web of Science ID 000388587000020
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7069-8032