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Events

April 14, 2022 - 9:00am to April 16, 2022 - 5:00pm

The year 2022 will mark the 400th anniversary of Molière, the star actor, famous author, and icon of French and Western culture. Organized by...

April 28, 2022 - 9:30am to May 1, 2022 - 5:00pm

An interdisciplinary conference on the aesthetics and politics of Saharan spaces The “Desert Futures : Sahara” symposium and workshop that was...

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...

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-...

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”...

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...