Maylis de Kerangal "Traduire Réparer les vivants" (11/7/19)
Sam Di Iorio (Hunter College) "Farewell to Mac-Mahonism: Modern Problems in French Film Criticism 1959-1967" (4/11/19)
Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania) "French Science Fiction and the Reproductive Biopolitics of Orphan Black" (1/28/19)
Morgane Cadieu (Yale University) "Social Swerves: Mobility and Migration in Contemporary French Prose" (11/19/18)
Rachel Mesch (Yeshiva University) "Writing Their Way Out: Trans Imaginings in Nineteenth Century France" (03/22/18)
Phillip John Usher (New York University) "On the Exterranean: Towards an Ecology of Extraction in the Humanist Anthropocene" (10/24/17)
Andrew Sobanet (Georgetown University) "Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality" (04/11/17)
Leslie Barnes (Australian National University) "If This Isn't the Truth, What Is? Sex Trafficking and Literary Testimony in Cambodia" (10/19/16)
Scott Francis (University of Pennsylvania) "Anticipating misogyny: Praesumptio in the Querelle des Amies and Heptaméron 13" (3/21/16)
Cécile Bishop (New York University) "Skin, Race and the Modern Self: Blackness and the Blush"(2/19/16)
Jennifer Tamas (Rutgers University) "Quand taire c'est faire." La Scène interdite: Racine ou la dramaturgie du silence" (11/20/15)
Todd Shepard (Johns Hopkins University) "Le Sexe-Couteau: Power, Resistance, and Sodomy in Post-Algerian France" (2/13/15)
Ellen Welch (UNC Chapel Hill) "Ballet Diplomacy at the Congress of Westphalia (1645)" (10/24/14)
Alison James (University of Chicago) "Autobiography in the Archive: Marguerite Yourcenar's Family Chronicles" (2/28/14)
Mylène Priam (Harvard University) "Le Monde selon Glissant" (11/08/13)
Brian Martin (Williams College) “Lumber Jacques: Logging and Literature from the French Novel to Queer Culture” (2/22/13)
Priya Wadhera (Adelphi University) “Fêter la copie, brouiller l’original: Une étude de l’esthétique postmoderne dans Un cabinet d’amateur de Perec et d’œuvres choisies de Warhol” (9/28/12)
Marcus Keller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Concepts of the Orient and the Issue of Early Modern Orientalism: Marlowe, Cervantes, Racine” (4/19/12)
Nicholas Paige (University of California, Berkeley) “How to Read a Mind (Crébillon)” from Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel(3/1/12)
Kathleen Hart (Vassar College) “Strangers to Ourselves: Evolution and Animality in Balzac's Passion in the Desert" (4/7/11)
Jonathan Eburne (The Pennsylvania State University) “Breton’s Wall, Carrington’s Kitchen: Surrealism’s Archival Knowledge” (11/5/10)
Graduate Student and Postdoc Talks
Jared Miller "Romance Auctoritas and Narrating Allegory in René d'Anjou's Livre du Cuer d'Amours espris" (4/12/21)
Nathalie Lacarrière "Anthologizing the Anthological: Christine de Pizan's Enseignemens Moraux" (1/25/21)
Trask Roberts "Self-Translators' Double Trouble" (10/7/19)
Andrea Lloyd "The 'Arabo-Musulman': Seeking Liberation in Exile" (10/22/18)
Benjamin Dalton "Life in Plastic: What Should We Do With Plasticity?" (4/5/18)
Sterling Kouri "Reading Houellebecq and his Fictions" (11/28/17)
Marla Epp "Torn Witnesses: Telling the Spanish Civil War in Lydie Salvayre's Pas Pleurer" (3/23/17)
Dr. Yue Zhuo "La vie comme texte": Le devenir de la biographématique chez le dernier Barthes" (4/7/16)
Lucy Swanson “The Eye of the Zombie: Blankness, Projection, and Desire in Recent Haitian Fiction” (1/26/12)