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February 2, 2022
Alyson Waters edited 56 issues of Yale French Studies with unflagging excellence.  Under her leadership, YFS explored a rich diversity of topics– from Surrealism to...
January 20, 2022
Congratulations to our colleague Christophe Schuwey and his co-authors Clara Dealberto and Jules Grandin for the publication of L’Atlas Molière (Les Arènes). This...
November 4, 2021
This essay from Public Books—a “teaser” of recent archival discoveries related to Ousmane Sembène’s film La Noire de… (1966). A longer, academic piece—“Looking for Diouana...
November 3, 2021
We are thrilled to announce that Richard Riddick won the Naomi Schor Prize for the best graduate student paper at the   46th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies...
October 11, 2021
Abigail Fields has just published her article, “The Earth of the Wretched : Restoring the Vegetal Voice in Yamina Mechakra’s La Grotte éclatée” in the latest issue of...
October 11, 2021
Doyle Calhoun has been awarded the Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History.  His prize-winning essay, “Dead Narrators, Queer Terrorists: On Suicide Bombing and Literature...
September 16, 2021
Edited by French Department alumnae Anne E. Linton and Raisa Rexer, it is the first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography’s place in...