 
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.