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


  • Lecturer, Stanford Introductory Studies

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