Nelly Furman is a scholar of French nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature with an interest in textual criticism, women, and feminist studies. She currently serves as Director of both the Office of Programs and the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages at the Modern Language Association, and is a Professor Emerita at Cornell University. She is the author of La Revue des Deux Mondes et le Romantisme (1831-1848) (1975) and co-editor of Women and Language in Literature and Society (1980).