This essay from Public Books—a “teaser” of recent archival discoveries related to Ousmane Sembène’s film La Noire de… (1966). A longer, academic piece—“Looking for Diouana...
We are thrilled to announce that Richard Riddick won the Naomi Schor Prize for the best graduate student paper at the 46th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies...
Abigail Fields has just published her article, “The Earth of the Wretched : Restoring the Vegetal Voice in Yamina Mechakra’s La Grotte éclatée” in the latest issue of...
Doyle Calhoun has been awarded the Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History. His prize-winning essay, “Dead Narrators, Queer Terrorists: On Suicide Bombing and Literature...
Edited by French Department alumnae Anne E. Linton and Raisa Rexer, it is the first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography’s place in...
Turning to the libertine novels of the 18th century, this study provides an alternative history of French libertinage: spirited courtesans, noisy petits-maîtres, demystified...
The magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria (1830–1962) is such that only aesthetic works have been able to register its...
