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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...
June 2, 2023
Making ghosts perceptible: Literature and post-colonial memory in Algeria   Jill Jarvis discusses the role of literature in “decolonizing” memory in Algeria and the...
May 23, 2023
On Monday, May 22, 2023 the Yale French Department held its commencement reception honoring the newest graduates from Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and...
May 23, 2023
Our heartiest congratulations go to the Department of French’s 4 recent PhD recipients: Aaron Kestle (Combined Program of French & Renaissance Studies) “Magical...
May 23, 2023
Madison Mainwaring received the Marguerite Peyre Prize, which is awarded to graduate students in recognition of excellence in the thesis or exceptional contributions to the...