News

January 19, 2024
Marlene Daut commissioned a series for the Global Black History section at Public Books for seven scholars to reflect on what 220 years of Haitian independence means for how...
October 11, 2023
The Department proudly congratulates Nicola Angeli for winning the Edouard Morot-Sir Fellowship, awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies, for his dissertation...
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...