Clémence Boulouque (born 25 June 1977 in Paris) is a French writer, journalist, and literary critic. Early life and education The daughter of magistrate , her life was upended when her father was appointed an anti-terrorism judge in the aftermath of the wave of attacks of 1986, implicating Iran. Clémence Boulouque was only thirteen when her father, confronted with terrible political-media pressure, committed suicide on 13 December 1990. It is from this painful experience, revived by her presence in New York on 11 September 2001, that Boulouque's vocation for literature and novel was born. A graduate from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the ESSEC, Boulouque spent some time in a recruiting firm before moving to New York for the first time in order to do a master's degree in international relations at Columbia University in 2001–2002. Career Back in France after New York, she devoted herself to writing, journalism and literary criticism from 2002 to 2007. In 2003, she wrote her first story, Mort d'un silence, in which she tells the long ordeal that she and her family lived when her father committed suicide. She wrote in particular in Le Figaro littéraire, Transfuge and also in Lire. She regularly intervened as a chronicler in the program by Arnaud Laporte on France Culture. She was the producer of the series of programs such as À voix nue with Toni Morrison or Amos Oz, as well as a summer series about Marguerite Yourcenar. In 2005, William Karel made the film adaptation: La Fille du juge. This documentary mixed: Archive footage of programs and newscasts ; Photos and family movies shot in Super 8 by judge Boulouque ; Scenes shot in New York City and featuring the young novelist in person (at 28). The voice-over which "expresses" the words of Clemence, is that of the actress Elsa Zylberstein whom Karel met on the shooting of Van Gogh by Maurice Pialat. She returned to the United States in 2008 and was awarded a PhD in Jewish Studies and History from New York University in 2014. Boulouque completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania's Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, and she currently teaches in the Department of Religion at Columbia University as Carl and Bernice Witten Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies. Her courses of instruction include Religion and the Movies as well as Masterpieces of Western Literature and