Eléonore M. Zimmermann

Eléonore Maria Zimmermann (born 2 October 1931) is a Swiss literary scholar based in the United States. A 1971 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Magies de Verlaine, La Liberté et le destin dans le théâtre de Jean Racine (1982), and Poétiques de Baudelaire dans Les Fleurs du mal: rythme, parfum, lueur (1998). She worked as a teacher at Wellesley College, Brandeis University, and University of Rochester, before becoming a full professor at Stony Brook University. Biography Eléonore Maria Zimmermann was born on 2 October 1931 in Switzerland and later moved to the United States.

After working at Wellesley College as a French instructor since 1956, Zimmermann moved to Brandeis University in 1959 as lecturer before being promoted to assistant professor in 1960.

In 1967, Zimmermann's book Magies de Verlaine, centered on the work of French poet Paul Verlaine, was published by José Corti. In 1971, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "a study of the concept of fate and liberty in the theatre of Racine", and she subsequently published the 24th volume of Stanford French and Italian Studies, La Liberté et le destin dans le théâtre de Jean Racine (1982), focusing on the themes of freedom and fate in his work. In 1998, she published another monograph, Poétiques de Baudelaire dans Les Fleurs du mal: rythme, parfum, lueur, which is about the poetry of Charles Baudelaire. She also wrote several academic articles on literature.