Caroline Weber

Caroline Weber is a professor of French and comparative literature at Barnard College, where she specializes in the literature and history of the French ancien régime, Enlightenment, and Revolution. Weber’s work spans literary history, visual culture, biography, and fashion. Her most recently published book, Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siecle Paris, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the American Library in Paris Book Award, and winner of the French Heritage Society Literary Award. Weber’s previous book, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, was named a New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. She has written for a vast range of scholarly journals, and newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Vogue. In 2016, she was notably named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.