Bettina Lerner

Bettina R. Lerner is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the City College and at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research focuses on popular culture and literature in nineteenth-century France. Her first book Inventing the Popular: Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris is forthcoming and her more recent research addresses the rise of intellectual property laws and its effects on poetics in nineteenth-century France.