erentzou@princeton.edu
Effie Rentzou is professor of French and her research and teaching focus on modernism and the avant-garde. Her publications include Littérature malgré elle: Le surréalisme et la transformation du littéraire (2010), Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, 1910-1940 (2022), the edited volume 1913: The Year of French Modernism (2020), and many articles and book chapters on surrealism, the avant-garde, and poetry. In addition to her contributions to exhibition catalogues for the Metropolitan Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Guggenheim, and the Musée de l’art Moderne de Strasbourg, she co-curated the exhibition “Objets en question: Archéologie, ethnologie, avant-garde” at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris (2025).
Read her full biography on the Department of French and Italian website.
