Christie
McDonald

Christie McDonald

Christie McDonald is the Smith Professor emerita of French Language and Literature in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. From 2000-2006, she served as Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and from 2010-2017, she and her husband, Michael Rosengarten, served as Masters/Faculty Deans at Mather House.

McDonald is the author or editor of many books and articles on literature in an interdisciplinary context. A literary historian, as well as cultural critic and theorist, she has worked on eighteenth and twentieth to twenty-first-century French thought and literature in a comparative context. She has also published in the areas of literature and philosophy, anthropology, feminist theory, and the arts (music and painting).