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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” in the latest issue of...
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 Suicide Bombing and Literature...
September 16, 2021
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...
September 16, 2021
Turning to the libertine novels of the 18th century, this study provides an alternative history of French libertinage: spirited courtesans, noisy petits-maîtres, demystified...
September 16, 2021
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...
September 10, 2021
How War—and Racism—Makes Monsters out of Men Doyle Calhoun
September 9, 2021
Read Victor Brombert’s interview as one of the surviving “Richie Boys”, the secret US unit that helped the Allies win WWII, at: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-war-...