Batuman

Elif Batuman

Adjunct Associate Professor

Department

English

Office

410B Barnard Hall

Office Hours

By sign up - T 1-3pm

Contact

*photo by Valentyn Kuzan 

Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and for the Women’s Prize. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Stanford University. Her second novel, Either/Or, was published in 2022.