News

May 22, 2025
Ethan Levinbook ’25 graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with distinction, earning a historic B.A./M.A. in French as the first Yale student to complete this dual degree...
May 19, 2025
On Monday, May 19, 2025, the Yale Department of French Director of Graduate Studies, Pierre Saint-Amand proudly to introduced the two new Ph.D. Graduate Students, Walid...
May 19, 2025
The Yale French Department held its commencement reception honoring the graduates from Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  See the program below for...
April 15, 2025
Marlene Daut, Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University was interviewed by the Yale News on April 7th for her new book, “The First and Last King of...
January 9, 2025
Yale French Studies is delighted to announce the release of volume 144 & 145, Senegalese Transmediations: Literature, New Media, and Audiovisual Cultures. Edited by ...
December 4, 2024
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition awarded the Frederick Douglass Book Prize to Marlene L. Daut for her book...
December 4, 2024
We are thrilled to announce the publication of A History of Haitian Literature, edited by Marlene L. Daut and Kaiama L. Glover and published in November 2024 by Cambridge...