About

Michaela Hulstyn is a Lecturer in Structured Liberal Education, a first-year residential education program at Stanford University. She received her B.A. from UCLA in French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature and her Ph.D. from Stanford in French.

Her first book, Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of Consciousness, was published with the University of Toronto Press in 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. She previously held academic appointments at Florida State University and Reed College.