Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin

Expert Bio

Judith G. Coffin, Associate Professor of History, teaches modern France and Europe at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work includes The Politics of Women’s Work: The Paris Garment Trades, four editions of Western Civilizations (W.W. Norton) and Sex, Love and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir ( Cornell University Press, 2020). She has also written about the history of communication: “From Interiority to Intimacy: Radio and Psychoanalysis in Twentieth-Century France,” (Cultural Critique, 2015) she is beginning a new project, tentatively titled A Short Biography of Story of O. She got her PhD at Yale, taught at Harvard and the University of California Riverside; she been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.