Dr. Adele Kudish is an Associate Professor of English at BMCC/CUNY, where she has taught since 2012. Professor Kudish holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests include the European proto-psychological novel (English, French, Spanish, and Italian), particularly psychological love stories, as well as fashion theory and early 20th century novels by women. Her 2020 book, The European Roman d’analyse: Unconsummated Love Stories from Boccaccio to Stendhal defines and delineates for the first time a sub-genre that she calls “analytical fiction.” Her book examines a selection of eight European texts written between 1343 and 1827 that illustrate a deeply pessimistic philosophy that questions the validity of every kind of communicative sign.