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March 20, 2024
French Major, Awa Cisse, is one of three Yale students, among 18 emerging leaders to be named a 2024-2025 Luce Scholar.  Awa Cisse is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in...
March 4, 2024
Professor Kaiama L. Glover, Professor of African American Studies and French, was interviewed by Yale News for their Office Hours Feature on March 4, 2024. Professor Kaiama L...
January 19, 2024
Marlene Daut commissioned a series for the Global Black History section at Public Books for seven scholars to reflect on what 220 years of Haitian independence means for how...
October 11, 2023
The Department proudly congratulates Nicola Angeli for winning the Edouard Morot-Sir Fellowship, awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies, for his dissertation...
August 3, 2023
Jessica DeVos’s essay examining Madeleine de l’Aubespine’s translation of Heroides 2 was published on August 3 in the OUP volume Ovid in French: Reception by Women from the...
July 28, 2023
Atomic Frankenstein ‘Oppenheimer’ and the anguish of creative destruction   in The American Prospect    
June 7, 2023
“Anthologie de la pensee noire: Etats Unis et Haiti (XVIII et XIX siècles)”, published on 04/21/2023,  is a co-edited collection of texts from the Haitian corpus and black...