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French Studies
Interviews with scholars of France about their new books.
October 11, 2026
The French Médersa
The French Médersa: Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa (Cornell UP, 2026) explores how the French state pursued a century-long project o…
October 4, 2026
Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere
Through a postcolonial lens, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere (Liverpool, 2025) explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visua…
September 26, 2026
Water Logics
Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities (U Virginia Press, 2026) examines the epistemological adjustments that take …
September 12, 2026
Arts of the Border
Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe’s Edges (Fordham, 2025) investigates the consequences of unfolding catastrophes across the world and the…
September 7, 2026
Justice for Jehanne
In the winter of 1472, the city of Dijon, France, became the stage for a remarkable legal drama. On the mayor’s orders, an investigator named Jaques B…
September 7, 2026
By Flesh and Toil
From the beginning of the seventeenth century, French colonies and trading posts sprawled across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In the first pan-impe…
September 7, 2026
Inhabiting Silence
Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by…
August 22, 2026
Baudelaire's Objects
Baudelaire's Objects (Bloomsbury, 2026) examines Baudelaire's multifaceted use of natural, domestic, urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and pros…
August 21, 2026
The Power of Life
In the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first evolutionary theory of life and, with it, a new scienc…
August 15, 2026
The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures
The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures (Cambridge UP, 2026) is the first book that examines the concept of risk in non-anglophone wor…
August 5, 2026
Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century
Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century (University of Toronto Press, 2024) examines one of the most revered …
July 28, 2026
Beyond the Ocean
In Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions (Oxford University Press, 2026), Christopher Hodson and…
July 24, 2026
Fantômes de la révolution noire
Black Power! A name with a ring to it on both sides of the Atlantic, taken as a sign of Black American rage incarnated by a few names: Malcolm X, Stok…
July 21, 2026
Negotiating Childhood
Kelly M. Duke Bryant’s Negotiating Childhood: French Colonialism and African Children in Senegal, 1848-1940 (U Mass Press, 2026)explores how colonial …
July 15, 2026
The Forger of Paris
The Forger of Paris (Doppelhouse Press, 2025) presents Adolfo Kaminsky’s biography in its only authorized edition, expanded with photographs from Kami…
July 11, 2026
Forms of Blackness
What does Blackness look like? In Forms of Blackness: Race and Visibility in the French-Speaking World (Duke University Press, 2026), Cécile Bishop …
July 2, 2026
The First Emancipation
The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France (Princeton UP, 2026) is a dramatic account of how slavery and race …
July 1, 2026
Thomas Paine at the Semiquincentennial
Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (Princeton University Press, 2026) is the first major new edition of Paine’s works, bringing together all his writing…
June 25, 2026
Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987
From the inside flap: “A rich resource of Deleuze’s research that is unavailable in his published writing Includes summaries of 216 seminar sessio…
June 16, 2026
Inventing Nadar
Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History of …