Ada Gafter-O’Higgins is a 5th year PhD student at the Graduate Center, CUNY, majoring in Comparative Literature. She also holds a BA in French Literature. Her academic interests range from the 17th century French female memoir to Marcel Proust, and also encompass philosophy with a special interest in Plato and Heidegger. Some topics she is interested in are theories of knowledge, memory, the history of sexuality, and the intersection of philosophy and literature. She has tutored in French and taught English Composition courses at Brooklyn College for 3 years.