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Author Colombe Schneck on "Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories"

October 22, 2024 - 1:30pm
Alice Kaplan will be in conversation with author Colombe Schneck about autobiographical fiction, memoir, and the experience of being translated.

The Yale Mediterranean Series with Alice Kaplan

October 29, 2024 - 6:00pm
The Yale Mediterranean Series with Alice Kaplan Alice Kaplan will be in conversation with Amara Lakhous about her upcoming book: Seeing Baya:...

Lecture by Martine Reid (Lille University)

October 31, 2024 - 4:00pm
Le sexe de la littérature ou le « cas » Delphine de Girardin A l’occasion de sa réédition en « Folio classique » d’un roman de Delphine de Girardin...

Fall 2024 - French Translation Exam

November 15, 2024 - 5:30pm
This exam is for graduate students who need to fulfill a language requirement.  Exams consist of two passages to be translated from French to English...

News

Yale French Major, Ethan Levinbook Awarded Prestigious Hart Lyman Prize

October 10, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Ethan Levinbook, YC ‘25, has been awarded the prestigious Hart Lyman Prize. The Hart Lyman Prize is a prize awarded...

Graduate Student Pierre Forfert Wins the Naomi Schor Memorial Award

September 27, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that Pierre Forfert won the Naomi Schor Memorial award for best graduate student essay presented at the annual Nineteenth...

Fredric Jameson, Yale French Dept PhD and Professor, Dies on September 22

September 27, 2024
Please see YFS Managing Editor Nichole Gleisner’s tribute. Quoting from his NYT obituary (by Clay Risen), “Fredric Jameson graduated with a...

Alice Kaplan publie son récit sur Baya en France, en Algérie et aux Etats-Unis

August 26, 2024
The book, translated from English by Patrick Hersant, was published in French by “Le bruit du Monde”, in France, and by Editions Barzakh, in Algeria...
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