Asti Hustvedt

Asti Hustvedt, Ph.D., is an independent scholar who has written extensively on hysteria. She has a Ph.D. in French literature from New York University, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a Phi Betta Kapa Fellowship. She is the author of Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris and the editor of The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France.