Volume 31

New York Universi ty Fr ench Programs Newsle tter

Fal l 2017

L’Arc

Greetings from the Department ofFrench Literature, Thought andCulture. Yes, as of 2016-17 the de-partment’s name has been changedto reflect more clearly the rangeand nature of our teaching and re-search. In future, all syllabi willcarry the new full name so that stu-dents from elementary French up

are reminded why they are learning French, and howwe teach it at NYU; and graduate students will be reas-sured that studying film, poetry, political thought, the-atre, or contemporary philosophy, are all warmlysupported by our faculty. The year 2016-2017 was alsoepochal as the year in which Tom Bishop stood downas Director of the Center for French Civilization andCulture, after nearly 40 years in that role, and the direc-torship was combined – at least provisionally – with therole of department chair.

The news that it falls to me to report therefore has al-most twice as much ground to cover as last year. High-lights from the Center include the annual conferenceon “Global French Theatre”; a symposium co-orga-nized with Columbia on Kaija Sariaaho’s opera“L’Amour de Loin” following its première at the Metand featuring an interview with the composer; a collo-quium on Starobinski co-run by Denis Hollier and theUniversity of Geneva; and a conference on “TheFrench National Front and Beyond: A Global PopulistMoment?” conceived by Stéphane Gerson and FrédéricViguier which attracted favorable notice in Le Monde.Olivier Barrot reprised French Literature in the Makingto a rejuvenated audience of aficionados and students.

From the point of view of the department, the head-line news is that Dr. Hannah Freed-Thall has agreed tojoin us as an Assistant Professor. Other departmental

news is also positive. Effort – and funds – have beendirected to making our undergraduate program morecoherent, more appealing, and above all more visible;and thanks to the unflagging energies of this year’sDUS and her Assistant, Timmie Vitz and MelanieHackney, as well as of instructors in the language pro-gram led by John Moran, we are beginning to see a re-versal of the downward trend in enrollmentsnationwide and a genuine surge in numbers of Frenchmajors and minors. Our free-standing MA programshave not been so lucky, having now all been suspendedor terminated; but our PhD program continues to beone of the largest and most successful in the country.We recruited 6 students for next year; even though thejob market remains obdurately unwelcoming, confi-dence in French literature, thought and culture remainshigh.

Other entries in L’Arc will detail how many departmentmembers have organized conferences, published books,and received honors. Mention should be made, though,of Richard Sieburth, to whom the American Academyof Arts and Letters gave an award in Literature, and ofTom Bishop, promoted to the rank of Commandeurde la Légion d’Honneur. Another signal part of de-partmental life this year was the inauguration of a seriescalled “Futures of French,” co-organized by me to-gether with junior faculty and graduate students, inwhich early career scholars are invited to NYU to talkabout their research and share with graduate studentstheir experiences of starting out in the profession. Overthe course of the year, 4 of these events each broughttogether two guests whose interests both diverged andintersected. Looking to the future through their eyesand those of our young colleagues proved to be amongthe most exciting and rewarding events of the year.

Sarah Kay

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FACULTY NEWSEMILY APTER completed her second year asChair of the Department of ComparativeLiterature, continued to serve on the MLAExecutive Council and became president-elect of the American Comparative LiteratureAssociation. She was also appointed a facultymember at the School of Criticism and The-ory at Cornell (summer 2017). Publicationsincluded the preface to Etienne Balibar's Cit-izen Subject (Fordham UP); “Gender Ontol-ogy, Sexual Difference, and DifferentiatingSex: Malabou and Derrida,” in philoSOPHIA:A Journal of Continental Feminism; “The‘Democratic Torrent:’ Rancière’s Micropoli-tics,” in Understanding Rancière, UnderstandingModernism ed. Patrick Bray, Bloomsbury Press;“Non-Equivalent, Not Translated, Incom-mensurate: Rethinking the Units of Compar-ison in Comparative Literature” for a volumeof plenary sessions delivered at the Interna-tional Comparative Literature Association;and “Shibboleth: Policing by Ear and Foren-sic Listening in Projects by Lawrence AbuHamdan,” in October 156 (2016): 100-115.Emily keynoted a conference at the Univer-sity of Paris III (“Traduire en justice”); co-or-ganized a conference at NYU in Paris andENS on “Economies of Existence”;keynoted a conference on “Translation andPhilosophy” at Trinity College Dublin, andgave a lecture and workshop at the AmericanUniversity of Beirut.

CLAUDIE BERNARDOrganized, in collabora-tion with Prof. Chantal Massol, a colloquium,“The Long and the Short of It : interférencesde la nouvelle et du roman en France auXIXe siècle.” The first part was held at NewYork University in March 2017; the secondpart will take place at Université de Grenoblein October 2017. She published an article, “Ne pleure pas Hen-riette, Nous te marierons: lecture du Malheurd’Henriette Gérard de Duranty,” in Écrire lemariage des lendemains de la Révolution à la Belle

Époque (Stéphane Gougelmann et Anne Ver-jus eds., Publications Universitaires de Saint-Etienne, 2017).She delivered two talks: “Recompositions enchaîne : à propos du roman historiquefrançais du dix-neuvième siècle,” Colloquiumon “Recent Research in Nineteenth-CenturyFrench Studies,” Graduate Center, CUNY,April 2017;“Funeral Metaphors in JulesMichelet’s Romantic Historiography,” Collo-quium “Fictions of History,” Graduate Cen-ter, CUNY, May 2017.

CÉCILE BISHOP: This second year at NYUhas been extremely rewarding. In the Spring,I launched two new courses – an undergrad-uate course on “Race in France,” and a grad-uate seminar entitled “Photography andTheory: Postcolonial Perspectives.” Teachingphotography was new for me, just as workingwith photographs was new for most of thestudents in the group, and the experience wasboth challenging and very exciting. As for“Race in France,” our exploration of the dif-ferences between US debates on the topicand French ideas of color-blindness gener-ated stimulating conversations throughoutthe semester. This class also resonated in in-teresting ways with my current research onthe visuality of race in French culture. My ar-ticle, “Race as Aesthetics? Denise Colomb inthe Caribbean,” will be published by FrenchStudies in 2018, and a second article on Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s famous “Portrait d’unenégresse” is currently under review. I was alsoable to present some new work in progress,focusing on race and the photographs of theliberation of Paris, at the Photographies confer-ence in London in May and at the ACLA con-ference in July. In parallel, I have beencollaborating with Dr Zoe Roth (DurhamUniversity, UK) to prepare a working groupon “Race and Aesthetics in French and Fran-cophone Cultures,” which will take place atthe next MLA conference in New York and

will lead to the publication of a journal spe-cial issue. Finally, I was delighted to beawarded a Faculty Fellowship at the NYUCenter for the Humanities for the year 2017-18. This will allow me to spend a semester fo-cusing on my research, and I am very muchlooking forward to working together with theother fellows.

TOM BISHOP was promoted to the rank ofCommandeur in the Légion d’Honneur byedict of the President of the French Repub-lic.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:“Doubrovsky à New York” Mémorial à SergeDoubrovsky, Maison de la Poésie, Paris, June10, 2017.“Histoire d’amour” at Commandeur de la Lé-gion d’Honneur ceremony, NYU-Paris, June7, 2017.Served as Mentor and directed a Guided In-dividual Study for Gabriel Quigley, graduatestudent in CompLit.

Jury member 2017 French Heritage LiteraryAward. Taught “Beckett” (graduate) and “Literatureof the Absurd” in the FAS Seminar program. He is co-director of Anna Raff Miller’s dis-sertation (concluded) and was a first readerfor Michelle Lanchart’s.

Together with Prof. Avital Ronell, Bishop ispreparing a celebratory colloquium to markHélène Cixous’s 80th birthday, in New York

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in September 2017. Entitled CIXOUSVER-SAIRE, it will feature Hélène Cixous, andDaniel Mesguich, Marta Segarra, Anne Bog-art, Judith Miller, Camille Laurens, PeggyKamuf, Geoffrey Bennington, Karen Finleyamong many others.

BENOIT BOLDUC was promoted to full pro-fessor, effective September 1st 2017. He iscurrently serving as director of NYU Paris.His book, La Fête imprimée, was reviewed inNonfiction (P. Valade, “Politiques de la fête,”http://www.nonfiction.fr/article-8607-poli-tiques_de_la_fete.htm). He presented two pa-pers: “Césars, Princes Conquérants ouIllustres Romains? Rivalités poétiques dansles marges du Carrousel des Chevaliers de laGloire (1612),” at the 2016 Annual Confer-ence of the Society for Interdisciplinary Sev-enteenth-Century Studies (SE17), inDartmouth (NH); and “Fonctions du textedramatique dans l’édition des fêtes théâ-trales,” at the 47th Annual Conference of theNorth American Society for Seventheenth-Century French Literature in Lyon. He alsogave one of the Global Orientation Lecturesat NYU Paris (“A Global Hitchhiker’s Guideto Vaux-le-Vicomte”), and was a guestspeaker in professor Ségolène LeMen’s grad-uate seminar on “Texte, images, photogra-phy” at the Université Paris Ouest NanterreLa Défense.

LUDOVIC CORTADE finalized articles on Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Valéry, and André Bazin’s“negative ontology” in film. He was awardeda three month fellowship to do some researchfocusing on the intersections of French filmtheory and sociology at the NYU Global Re-search Institute (GRI) in Paris and the Bib-liothèque nationale. He was invited to give aseries of three lectures at the École normalesupérieure: “Elie Faure, penseur du cinéma,”“François Truffaut et la ville: un cinéma del’absorbement?”, and “André Bazin, Film and

French Historiography.” He also organized acolloquium entitled “Vie et mort des mythes:cinéma, philosophie” at the Institut Nationald'Histoire de l'Art in Paris (INHA); the eventwas co-sponsored by NYU and the CNRS.

MICHAEL DASH During the past academicyear I published the following article -“A Per-petual Surprise, East Indians in the West In-dies,” in New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing,Janet Wilson and Chris Ringrose ed. LeidenRodopi, 2016, 5-13. I also published the fol-lowing book reviews - Alejo Carpentier, Rea-sons of State. In Caribbean review of Books,September 2016 (online), Marlene Daut, Trop-ics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of theHaitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. In Post-colonial Text Vol.11, No.2, 2016, I participatedin the following panel discussions - “Migra-tion, Modernity and the Caribbean Imagina-tion” with Caryl Phillips, NYU AAACaribbean Imaginary series, Feb. 29, 2016 and“Writing (in) the Caribbean” a panel discus-sion with Patrick Chamoiseau and EarlLovelace, “Caribbean Melting pot” Confer-ence, University of the West Indies, October14, 2016.I was also a member of the university SearchCommittee for GSAS Dean and chair of theDepartment salary committee. I continued onthe Editorial Committees of - Research inAfrican Literatures, Journal of West Indian Liter-ature, Small Axe, Mondes Francophones, New WestIndian Guide and the Journal of French and Fran-cophone Philosophy and as the General Editorof New World Studies Series, University Pressof Virginia.

STÉPHANE GERSON has accepted an ap-pointment as Director of the Institute ofFrench Studies, effective September 2017. Hepublished Disaster Falls: A Family Story(Crown) and gave a half-dozen talks aboutthis book in Manhattan, the New York area,and elsewhere. He also wrote an accompany-

ing essay for LitHub, “Writing to Survive: AFather on the Death of his Young Son”(http://bit.ly/2lVSaYs). Gerson co-orga-nized a two-day conference involving histo-rians, sociologists, political scientists, andjournalists entitled “The French NationalFront and Beyond: A Global Populist Mo-ment?” This was linked to a new undergrad-uate course “The French PresidentialElection of 2017: A Seismic Shift?” and a talkhe gave at the Columbia Journalism School’spolitics seminar. Gerson also spoke at the So-ciety for French Historical Studies’s confer-ence on “Rethinking the Family Archive,”part of a research project on historians andfamily histories that will lead to a review arti-cle in the Journal of Modern History. Hebroached such questions in a new graduatecourse he devised and co-taught with LucienNouis, “Ecrire la guerre, écrire l’histoire.”Gerson served as first-year advisor in theFrench department, and continued to sit onthe French Voices translation committee, theH-France Book Review Advisory Panel, andthe Society for French Historical Studies’ Re-search Travel Award committee.

HENRIETTE GOLDWYNN's fourth volume ofThéâtre de femmes de l’ancien régime, which sheco-edited, was published by Classiques Gar-nier. It features 8 plays by eighteenth-centuryfemale dramatists: Mlle Monicault, MmesRiccoboni, de Staal, Duboccage, Graffigny,Montesson and Benoist. There are 6 come-dies, one tragedy and one sentimental com-edy. The second volume of the anthologycomprising seventeenth century plays, origi-nally published in 2008, was just reprinted byClassiques Garnier. She gave two talks : “Lacrise prophétique et les lumières,” in Saare-bruck and “Représenter, éditer et lire Le Fa-vori de Marie-Catherine Desjardins (Mme deVilledieu) au 21e siècle,” in Lyon.

DENIS HOLLIER: I taught a senior seminar

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with Philippe Roger in the Spring andlaunched the workshops for third year grad-uate students preparing their exams andprospectus. In the fall, I contributed to thecatalog of the Henri Matisse show, “Le Lab-oratoire intérieur,” at the Musée de Lyon and,during the Spring semester, I co-organized aone day conference on Jean Starobinski, to-gether with Julien Zanetta from the Universityof Geneva.

SARAH KAY Much of this year has been ab-sorbed by the department and the Center. Idid, however, see the publication of my Ani-mal Skins and the Reading Self with Chicago anda couple of articles relating to my new projecton song. I was excited to collaborate on twoconferences: “Sirens and Centaurs,” co-orga-nized with Andreas Krass of Humboldt Uni-versity, was this years’ Medieval andRenaissance Center conference, bringing to-gether the two fields of animal studies andgender studies; and “Apollinaire and Suther-land: Translating Animals and Art Forms,”co-organized with Timothy Mathews of Uni-versity College London, was an interdiscipli-nary study of the Apollinaire-Dufy Bestiaireou Cortège d’Orphée and its artistic reworking byGraham Sutherland. My most rewarding visitof the year was to Zurich in December whereI gave the inaugural lecture in a new series onphilology run by the German department. Along essay with the unusual title “Philology’sVomit” and published by Chronos, Zurich,will be the eventual fruit of this visit. (Thesubtitle, “An Essay on the Corporeality andImmortality of Texts,” is just slightly more ex-planatory.)

JUDITH MILLER has been enjoying havingthe time to write and translate, as well asteach, and she returned to NYU Abu Dhabiin spring 2017 as a member of the Literatureand Theatre programs. She has participatedin conferences on José Pliya and on Hélène

Cixous in Paris (April and June respectively);and in New York, she chaired a round table,interviewed Christopher Isherwood, and per-formed in a short play honoring Tom Bishopduring the Center for French Culture and Civ-ilization’s conference on Global French The-atre (fall 2016). She has published ananthology of seven Koffi Kwahulé plays(with translations by herself and ChantalBilodeau) Seven Plays: In and Out of Africa,with the University of Michigan Press, 2017.She has also finished several articles and re-view pieces due for publication in 2017-2018:on Léonora Miano; José Pliya and MarieVieux-Chauvet; and Hélène Cixous and JeanGenet, as well as completing the translationof a novel by Guadeloupian author, GertyDambury, The Restless, due out in January 2018with The Feminist Press. She has returned towork on Le Théâtre du Soleil, updating herbook on Ariane Mnouchkine and publishing,with Rachel Watson, a review of the Soleil’slatest production, which will come to NewYork in December, Une Chambre en Inde. Hertranslation of Bernard-Marie Koltès’s play,In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields, will be fea-tured in a fall 2017 NYU French Center con-ference on “The Sense of Sound.” She iscurrently working on a second critical anthol-ogy of African francophone plays.

JOHN MORAN continues to wear three pro-fessional hats at NYU; he is the Director ofLanguage Programs in the department, a Fac-ulty Fellow in Residence in Lipton ResidenceHall, and the Faculty Affiliate for the FrenchExplorations Floor. John spent the past yearworking to enhance our undergraduateFrench program, overseeing the testing ofnew textbook materials; participating in focusgroup work concerning online learning plat-forms for Cengage at the annual ACTFL con-ference in Boston; serving as the moderatorfor a roundtable on performance studies, partof the undergraduate showcase sponsored by

Liberal Studies and the French Department;and organizing and presiding over NYU's firstConcours d'éloquence, winners of which ad-vanced to compete with students from otheruniversities at the Cultural Services of theFrench Embassy. With the Spanish Depart-ment, John organized and hosted a two-dayworkshop for our Language Lecturers fo-cused on both the ACTFL OPI and generalapplications of the ACTFL guidelines to lan-guage teaching. He has continued his workwith the College Board, including chairing theCollege-Level Examination Program (CLEP)French Language Test Development Com-mittee and serving as a Question Leader forthe Advanced Placement (AP) French Lan-guage and Culture exam scoring. Finally, thispast year John and Melanie Hackney onceagain took a group of nine students on astudy, research, and service trip across south-central Louisiana. This year John and Melaniewere featured on two local television newsprograms about the status of French inLouisiana, and they both, along with their stu-dents, were able to speak in favor of a projectfor the promotion of French immersionstudy in Louisiana at a parish hall councilmeeting.

In the Spring semester 2017, PROFESSORNICOLE was the Department 's Visiting Pro-fessor at NYU-Paris, where he taught a seniorseminar and a graduate seminar on Proust.He organized and introduced an evening de-voted to Proust and music. Piano and voicepieces were performed at NYU Paris by stu-dents from the Paris Conservatoire Jean-Philippe Rameau. On February 12, 2017, hiswork titled Le Silence des cartes was reviewed inDaniel Picoly's show on France Ô T.V. OnMarch 26, he participated in a round-table onIslands and literature at the Salon du Livre inParis. He wrote a paper on the archeology of“Against Sainte-Beuve,” forthcoming, and a

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Preface to Patick Derible's photo album“Entre Jadis et Naguère.” Retour d'Ulysse àSaint-Pierre, 7th volume of L'Oeuvre des mers,will be published by Éditions de l'Olivier onOctober 3.

LUCIENNOUIS a développé cette année deuxnouveaux séminaires doctoraux, dont le pre-mier, en collaboration avec Stéphane Gerson,s’est intéressé aux nouvelles écritures de laguerre et au dialogue entre le roman et l’his-toire. Le second a porté sur l’idée cosmopoli-tique sous la Révolution française, abordée àtravers des textes philosophiques, politiqueset littéraires. Ce dernier sujet a fait l’objetd’une communication à NEASECS(Amherst, 2016) intitulée « The InvisibleGlobe: Representing Cosmopolitanism dur-ing the French Revolution ». Dans le cadred’une journée organisée par Denis Hollier etJulien Zanetta autour des travaux de JeanStarobinski consacrés à l’herméneutique, Lu-cien Nouis a par ailleurs donné une commu-nication intitulée « Trois égarements : JeanStarobinski et le cercle tautologique » (HighFidelity : Jean Starobinski’s critical hermeneu-tics, NYU, February 17, 2017). Deux articlesont aussi été publiés : « La colère et la joie :éthique et esthétique des passions dans LeNeveu de Rameau » (Diderot Studies, 35) ainsique “Recomposing the Diffracted Text:Rousseau and the Metaphor of the Book ofNature” (Rousseau between Nature and Culture,ed. Anne Denneys-Tunney, Yves-CharlesZarka, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2016). LucienNouis est depuis cette année coorganisateurde l’Eighteenth-century France ReadingGroup, lieu de partage et de recherche no-made qui regroupe tous les mois des littéraireset des historiens spécialistes du XVIIIe siècleet dont la première séance s’est tenue à la Mai-son Française de NYU en décembre 2016.

RICHARD SIEBURTH I was the recipient ofone of the eight 2017 awards in the category

of Letters from the American Academy ofArts and Letters. My translation of Oswaldvon Wolkenstein’s “The Diver” appeared inthe Dec. 2016 issue of the New York Review ofBooks. My translations of of the French poetJacques Darras have appeared in Poetry(Chicago), in Mantis (Stanford), and in Liter-ary Imagination (Oxford). A volume of inter-views with Darras is scheduled forpublication next spring. Also in the works: anew edition of my translations of GershomScholem’s poetry (Archipelago Books), andof Michaux’s A Certain Plume (NYRB/Poets).Continuing to work on Late Baudelaire, forYale. Participated in the Starobinski at theMaison Française conference this past springand was the opening speaker at the EzraPound International Conference (EPIC) atU.Penn in early June. I have recently beennamed to the editorial board of the LockertLibrary of Translation (Princeton UniversityPress) and continue to be active as an advisorto NYU Press’s LAL (Library of Arabic Lit-erature).

PHILLIP JOHN USHER writes: “Throughoutthe academic year 2016-17, I was on leavefrom NYU thanks to a fellowship awarded bythe American Council of Learned Societies(ACLS) for conducting research on France’sfirst career tragedian, Robert Garnier. In thatproject, I examine how Garnier, perhaps likea modern war photographer, questioned hismedium in order to respond to the violencehe sought to represent. In addition, I alsocontinued work on a book about phenome-nologies and ecologies of extraction tenta-tively titled On the Exterranean, about whichI gave talks in various contexts, includingHarvard University’s Mahindra HumanitiesCenter, the École des Hautes Études en Sci-ences Sociales (EHESS), Paris IV (Sorbonne),Cambridge University, and elsewhere. With Pauline Goul, I have been gathering andediting chapters by established and younger

scholars for our co-edited volume, Early Mod-ern Écologies, under contract with AmsterdamUniversity Press in its Environmental Hu-manities in Pre-Modern Cultures series.Throughout the year, split mainly betweenParis, London, and New York, I also pub-lished a number of articles, including “Un-translating the Anthropocene” in Diacritics(issue 44.2).

Phillip John Usher working the British Library.Photo Credit: Vincent Masse

Phillip John Usher exploring the library at Clare Col-lege, Cambridge.Photo Credit: Timothy Chesters

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PORTRAIT OF KATHRINA LAPORTA incoming Visiting Assistant Professor My foray into French literaturecame by way of Machiavelli. As apolitical science major enrolled ina course on the arts in France, Irecall becoming quickly fasci-nated by Louis XIV's project totransform Versailles from a hunt-ing lodge into the very emblemof French grandeur. The sheer

cunning of the enterprise -- the commissioning of statuesand paintings to adorn the palace, the lavish fêtes attempt-ing to inculcate awe for the Sun King's quasi-divinity -- re-called chapters of The Prince that I had encountered inpolitical philosophy.

If admiration for Louis XIV's efforts to domesticate hissubjects first attracted my interest in seventeenth-centuryFrance, my undergraduate thesis ironically focused on anauthor whose works manipulated monarchical authority.Best known for his satirical pamphlets called pasquinades,Eustache Le Noble's own life was worthy of a novel -- im-prisoned on several occasions, he nevertheless evaded au-thorities while living on the run with his lover andfrequently smuggled his works beyond prison walls.

While I did not realize it at the time, Le Noble also awak-ened in me a fascination for the literary underground, thespaces in which clandestine materials were produced, cir-culated, and distributed in absolutist France. My currentbook project emerges from a dissertation that examinedthe ways in which some of these “forbidden books” man-aged to appeal to diverse reading publics by appropriatingstrategies popularized in legal and literary texts. To borrowan expression from historian Peter Burke, these workspowerfully illustrate “the other side of the medal” of ab-solutist splendor-- the ways in which a counter-discoursechallenged the pro-monarchical enterprise. What interests

me is not how politically subversive these texts are, butrather how they literary they are. I am particularly investedin how the pamphlet evolves in tone and content from thebeginning to the end of Louis XIV's reign, from legalistictexts aiming to enact a trial of the king in the nascent pub-lic sphere to burlesque works that mock the king's bodilyodors and failed attempts to seduce his wife. Pamphleteersnot only subvert the monarchy's monopoly over the per-formance of sovereignty, but in so doing reveal the faultlines within regimes that must consistently enact and “cite”(to borrow a term from performance studies) their ownpower.

A well-known passage in The Prince analyzes the differ-ences between Fortuna and Virtù to understand the waysin which the future must be anticipated by navigating bothpredictable and unpredictable forces. Having completedmy PhD at NYU, my appointment as a Visiting AssistantProfessor marks a serendipitous yet unanticipated home-coming. Since defending my dissertation in 2014, I haveheld teaching appointments at NYU, Dartmouth College,and Barnard College, where I have taught courses rangingfrom Elementary French to an advanced seminar onMockery. At Dartmouth, I was equally excited to workwith the Rassias Method for language instruction and toimmerse myself in their digital humanities community --a lightning-rod-of-a-subfield that still constitutes a WildWest in the discipline. My most recent project is a digitalcritical edition for three pamphlets mocking the Frenchmonarchy, funded by a grant from the Neukom Institute.Working on the website has informed my teaching and re-search in countless ways, and reaffirms for me the impor-tance of satire as a form for resistance.

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VISITING PROFESSORSFrançois Noudelmann (Paris-VIII) will teach “Studies in Contemporary French Thought - Lire avec les oreilles”

PHD IN FRENCH LITERATURE

Andrew DubrovRational Enchantment: On the TravelWritings of Cendrars, Leiris and Michaux

Andrew MillerChivalry and Courtliness in a Soubtil Light:Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart andthe Crisis of the 14th Century

Anna G. R. MillerCraving Connection in the Urban Waste-land: The Enigmatic Real and the Deal inthe Theatre of Bernard-Marie Koltès

Aubrey KornetaWriting (in) the School: Codes. Constraints.Emancipation?

Erika HendrixRepresenting Colette, Performing Gender :Colette and Jacqueline Audry

Joseph JohnsonAnimal Speech and Human Handwritingin the Ysopet of Marie and the Roman deRenart

MPHIL IN FRENCH LITERATURE

Maria Graciela Sanchez ReyesClaire Therese ReisingNicolas Jean-Gabriel EstournelAmelia Fedo

Aileen Ann Christensen

MA IN FRENCH LITERATURE

Emile AnceauTerrence CullenJeanne EtelainAnna Filipiak

MA IN TRANSLATION

Stephanie F Queiroz

ANDREW DULAU FELLOWSHIP

Elena AleksandrovaPierre Andre

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE LEGION

OF HONOR SUMMER FELLOWSHIP Elena AleksandrovaPierre AndreMaria BeliaevaGabriella LindsayKaliane Ung

BRADLEY RUBIDGE PRIZE

Nicolas Estournel

FRENCH DEPARTMENT SUMMER FEL-LOWSHIPS

Caitlyn GarciaMimi Zhou Janos Kun

GEORGES LURCY FELLOWSHIP

Samantha Presnal

GSAS MELLON DISSERTATION FEL-LOWSHIP

Downing Bray

JAMES ARTHUR FELLOWSHIP

Emily Kate Price

MICHEL BEAUJOUR FELLOWSHIP

Tina Montenegro

PENFIELD FELLOWSHIP

Claire Reising

DEGREES AND AWARDS (SEPT. 2016 - SEPT. 2017)

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DR. ROBERT S. APRIL MD MA (2009) at-tended the meeting of the International As-sociation for the Study of Emile Zola andNaturalism (AIZEN) at the University ofDebrecen (Hungary), June 8-11, and pre-sented a paper entitled, “What Would theDreyfus Affair Have Been without OctaveMirbeau?” A remarkably interesting and well-attended meeting with a tour of Debrecen,Hungary's second largest city, and EasternHungary hosted by the colleagues at the Uni-versity.

CÉCILE BALAVOINE a publié Maestro au Mer-cure de France. Il s'agit de l'histoire d'unedouble passion: passion d'une petite fille pourMozart et de musique, passion d'une femmeadulte pour un grand chef mozartien.

DANIEL BENSON was a postdoctoral fellowin the French department at NYU during the2016-2017 academic year. He published abook review of Eric Hazan's A History of theBarricade in Left History, Vol. 20, No 1(Spring/summer 2016). He also co-organizedthe interdisciplinary conference “Anachro-nisms” in April 2017, where he also presenteda paper entitled “A Laughable Anachronism:State Temporality and Colonization inFrance, 1830-1880.” In July 2017, he partici-pated in a research seminar in Paris, “Rethink-ing the Concept of Revolution” held at theEHESS.

PHOEBEMALTZ BOVY (PhD '13, French andFrench Studies) published The Perils of 'Privi-lege’ in March 2017 at St. Martin's Press.

MARK CRUSE (PhD 2005) received fellow-ships from the National Humanities Centerand Newberry Library for his project on theFrench manuscripts of Marco Polo's travelaccount.

AMELIA FEDO: My most important news isprobably my selection for a 2017-2018Chateaubriand Fellowship

ANNE F. GARRÉTA (PhD 1988) is currentlyResearch Professor at Duke University (jointappointment in the Literature Program & theDept. of Romance Studies). She is memberof the jury of the Prix Medicis since 2011.The English translation of her novel Sphinxwas published in US in 2015 (Deep Vellumpress), and the English translation of hernovel Pas un jour (Prix Medicis 2002 ) ap-peared in 2017 with the same publisher. Shewill publish a new novel in France this Fall,titled Dans l’béton (Editions Grasset &Fasquelle).

BRIAN KENNELLY (PhD 1996) won both CalPoly's “Club Advisor of the Year” and “Dis-tinguished Teaching” awards in 2017.

KATHRYN KLEPPINGER (PhD French/IFS,2011) co-edited a volume of essays entitledFrench Cultural Studies for the 21st Century, pub-lished in 2017 by the University of DelawarePress.The book aims to serve as a resourceon methodologies for interdisciplinary cul-tural studies and also features essays by NYUalums Chelsea Stieber (French/IFS) andAnnie Brancky (French).

YOUNA KWAK (PhD 2015) relocated toSouthern California and teaches in the FrenchDepartment at Pomona College. Her transla-tion of Véronique Bizot's Gardeners (Les Jar-diniers) was published by Diàlogos Press, andher translation-in-progress of Francois Bon’sDaewoo won the French Voices Grand Prizefor translation in 2016 from the Book De-partment of the French Cultural Services.This book will also be pubished by DiàlogosPress in 2019.

In June 2016, CHRISTOPHE LITWIN left thePrinceton Society of Fellows to join the De-partment of European Languages and Stud-ies at UC Irvine as Assistant Professor ofFrench. He directed the French Program atUCI in 2017. He just finished the collectedvolume: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Affaires deCorse, C. Litwin (dir.), J. Swenson (éd.), Vrin,coll. Textes et Commentaires, which will bein print in early 2018.

This summer, ANNA MILLER defended adoctoral dissertation entitled “Craving Con-nection in the Urban Wasteland: The Enig-matic Real and the Deal in the Theatre ofBernard-Marie Koltès.” In the spring, she or-ganized and directed a bilingual dramaticreading of La nuit juste avant les forêts byBernard-Marie Koltès performed by graduate

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and undergraduate students of French TonyHaouam, Tahina Mukit, Alexa Pearce, Grace(Ge) Gao, and Anna Miller. Hosted by theMaison Française, the Department of Frenchevent was followed by a talkback with theplay's English translator, Amin Erfani(Lehman College, CUNY), and a lively Q&Awith the readers.

TANYA MUSHINSKY just completed her thirdyear as a Visiting Assistant Professor ofFrench at Oklahoma State University. InApril, she presented a paper entitled “LaMélancolie dans Les Syrtes de Jean Moréas” atthe conference of the Société des dix-neu-viémistes, comparing the melancholy in LesSyrtes to that in Les Fleurs du mal. The confer-ence commemorated the 150th anniversaryof the death of Charles Baudelaire.

SAMANTHA PRESNAL spent the fall semesteras a researcher-in-residence through the Re-marque Institute’s Doctoral Fellowship at theÉcole Normale Supérieure. While in Paris,Samantha conducted preliminary research forher dissertation, an interdisciplinary projectwhich explores girls’ culinary instruction dur-ing the Belle Époque. This spring she was se-lected for the Fulbright Grant, theChateaubriand Fellowship, and the GeorgesLurcy Fellowship, which support doctoral re-search in France.

JOANNA STALNAKER (PhD, NYU Depart-ment of French, 2002) published a number

of articles this year: “Description and theNonhuman View of Nature,” Representations135.1 (Summer 2016); “Jonathan Israel in Di-alogue,” Journal of the History of Ideas 77.4(Oct. 2016); “Rousseau’s First Person,” His-tory of Modern French Literature, ed. Christo-pher Prendergast (Princeton University Press,2017); “Rousseau and Diderot,” Thinking withRousseau (Cambridge University Press, 2017).She spoke at NYU at the conference organ-ized by Denis Hollier and Julien Zanetta,High Fidelity: Jean Starobinski’s CriticalHermeneutics. She is in the final stages of hercurrent book, Enlightenment Endings: Testamentsfor a Philosophical Age, to be published by YaleUniversity Press.

DEBORAH STEINBERGER (PhD 1994), Asso-ciate Professor of French at the University ofDelaware, recently participated in the annualmeeting of the NASSCFL (North AmericanSociety for Seventeenth-Century French Lit-erature), held in Lyon in June 2017 (“Littéra-ture, livre et librairie en France au XVIIesiècle”). She served as a member of thecomité scientifique organizing the collo-quium, chaired a panel, and also presented apaper on Donneau de Visé’s Nouvelles nou-velles. She is currently writing a book aboutDonneau de Visé and Le Mercure Galan.

At her invitation, ANDY CURRAN (PhD1996), William Armstrong Professor of Hu-manities at Wesleyan University, spent a dayin December 2016 at Delaware, delivering alecture on Diderot and the Encyclopédie andleading a lunchtime discussion with graduatestudents on the topic of race and the Enlight-enment.Steinberger and Curran reconnectedwith their former classmate CURTIS SMALL(PhD 2001), senior assistant research librarianin Special Collections at UD, who attendedthe lecture.

KALIANE UNG a présenté son travail à 4 con-

férences. Elle a été classée deuxième au PrixRecherche au Présent pour son article sur leconcept de méditation chez Joë Bousquet.Elle a organisé une journée d'études autourde Violette Leduc en mai 2017 à NYU Paris.Elle continue de publier des nouvelles à Mon-tréal.

CATHERINE WEBSTER (Ph.D. 2005) I didpresent a paper at the MLA Annual Conven-tion in Philadelphia, entitled, “Post-Persepolis:Contemporary women and the Frenchgraphic novel,” but my scholarly work hasslowed as I assumed the role of Dean of theCollege of Liberal Arts at the University ofCentral Oklahoma. I just completed my firstyear in this position and look forward to con-tinuing in this leadership position.

MASANO YAMASHITA (Phd 2008) publishedJean-Jacques Rousseau face au public: problèmes d'i-dentité at Oxford University Studies in the En-lightenment. Masano also received tenure atthe University of Colorado Boulder.

Tony Haouam, Tahina Mukit, Alexa Pearce, Grace(Ge) Gao, and Anna Miller

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FRENCH DEPARTMENT HIGH-LIGHTSLECTURESLise Schreier (Associate Professor ofFrench, Fordham University) Esclave de lascène, l’histoire de Saïd Abdallah, premier acteur noirdu théâtre francais.

Simon Gaunt (Professor of French Lan-guage and Literature at King’s College Lon-don) Romancing The Truth: Vernacular Historyand the Origine of Fiction.

Nicholas Harrison (King's College Lon-don) Teaching in a Time of Crisis: Lessons fromColonial Education.

FUTURES OF FRENCHA new series highlighting the work of earlycareer scholars.This season featured Sara Miglietti (Depart-ment of German and Romance Languages,Johns Hopkins University), Jessica L. Tan-ner (Department of Romance Studies, UNC- Chapel Hill), Christopher Davis (Depart-ment of French and Italian, NorthwesternUniversity), Yasser Elhariry (Departmentof French and Italian, Dartmouth College),Raphaël Sigal (Department of French,Amherst College), Catherine Clark (Depart-ment of Global Studies and Languages,MIT), Eliza Zingesser (Department of

French and Romance Philology, ColumbiaUniversity), François Proulx (Department

of French and Italian, University of Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign).

Apollinaire & Sutherland: TranslatingAnimals & Art Forms with Sarah Kay (De-partment of French, New York University),Monica Bohm-Duchen (Department ofHistory of Art, Birkbeck University), Timo-thy Mathews (University College of Lon-don), Rachel Mundy (Department of Arts,Culture and Media, Rugters University), CliveScott (School of Literature, Drama and Cre-ative Writing, University of East Anglia),Matthew Senior (French & Italian, OberlinCollege), Sarah Spence (Department ofClassics, University of Georgia), GeorgeSzirtes (Creative Writing, University of EastAnglia).

CENTER FOR FRENCH CIVILIZA-TION AND CULTURE HIGHLIGHTSCONFERENCESL’Amour de loin and the Troubadourswith Susan Boynton (Department of Music,Columbia University), Jane Forner (Depart-ment of Music, Columbia University), SarahKay (Department of French, New York Uni-versity), Judith Peraino (Department ofMusic, Cornell University), Kaija Saariaho(Composer, author of L’Amour de loin), MaríaSanchez Reyes (Department of French,NYU).

FRENCH LITERATURE IN THE MAK-INGLiterary program hosted by Olivier Barrot

This year’s lectures featured Catherine Mil-let, Jean-Michel Ribes, Elisabeth Roudi-nesco, Alain Mabanckou, RaphaëlEnthoven, and Maryline Desbiolles.

FLORENCE GOULD CONFERENCE

Global French Theater / Pour unThéâtre mondeThis colloquium honored Professor TomBishop’s career-long contributions toFrench theater.

Sessions included a performance of DavidLescot's Ceux qui restent, and panels and dis-cussions with participants including Christo-pher Isherwood (NY Times), Judith G.Miller (NYU), Tom Bishop (NYU),Richard Schechner (NYU), Josette Feral(Univ. de Québec), Malik Gaines (NYU),Sophie Proust (Univ. de Lille), FlorentMasse (Princeton), director/writer OlivierPy, journalist Olivier Barrot, Christian Biet(Univ. Paris Ouest Nanterre), director ArthurNauzyciel, writer/director Gerty Dambury,playwright Koffi Kwahulé, translator Lau-rent Muhleisen, and actors Marie-Chris-tine Barrault and Marie Desgranges,among others.

FRENCH DEPARTMENT AND CENTER HIGHLIGHTS

Olivier Barrot in conversation with Maryline Desbiolles

Kaija Saariaho and Susan Boynton

Catherine Clark add Raphaël Sigal

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LA MAISON FRANÇAISE HIGHLIGHTSLECTURESJacqueline Lichtenstein (Kirk VarnedoeVisiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts,NYU): Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures

Lecture I: On Judging Works of Art - Who arethe Right Judges?

Lecture II: On Judging Works of Art - The Es-thetic Value of Originality, Authenticity, Uniqueness

Lecture III: On Judging Works of Art - Forgersand Experts

Patricia Mainardi (Professor emeritus,Graduate Center, CUNY): Drawing’s Stepchild:How Lithography Transformed the Visual Universeof 19th-Century France

Susan Rubin Suleiman (Professor, HarvardUniversity): Jewish Identity in Question: TheLegacy of Irene NémirovskyCo-sponsored by the Remarque Institute

Guillaume Soulez (Professor, UniversitéParis 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle; director, Institutde Recherche sur le Cinéma et l’Audiovisuel(IRCAV)): Modèles d’intrigue et modèles démocra-tiques dans les series françaises et américaines

Ivan Jablonka (Professor of History, Uni-versité Paris XIII – Nord): Laëtitia ou la fin deshommesCo-sponsored by the Institute of FrenchStudies

BOOK EVENTSVies de Charlotte Dufrène. À l’ombre de RaymondRoussel et Michel Leiris Preface: John Ashbery (Les Impressionsnouvelles, 2016) With authors Guy Bordin, ethnographer andfilmmaker; Renaud De Putter, composerand filmmaker; and John Ashbery, PulitzerPrize-winning poet (via Skype)

The Pen and the Brush With Anka Muhlstein (Scholar and writer;author of The Pen and the Brush: How Passionfor Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels(Other Press, 2017); Monsieur Proust’s Library;Balzac’s Omelette; A Passion for Freedom: The Lifeof Astolphe de Custine)

CONFERENCESZahia Rahmani (Writer; art historian; direc-tor, Art et Mondialisation, INHA; author ofMoze; Musulman roman; France, récit d’une enfance)in conversation with Vincent Crapanzano(Distinguished Professor of Anthropologyand Comparative Literature, Graduate Cen-ter, CUNY; author of The Harkis: The WoundThat Never Heals; Recapitulation)

Love and its Pathologies Florence Noiville Literary critic, Le Monde;foreign fiction editor, Le Monde des Livres;writer, novelist, author of The Gift; A Cage inSearch of a Bird (Seagull Books, 2016) in conversation with Norman Manea

Professor and writer-in-residence, Bard Col-lege; author of The Hooligan’s Return; OctoberEight o’Clock; On ClownsCo-sponsored by NY Institute for the Hu-manities

Sexuality in TranslationCo-sponsored by Société Internationale dePsychanalyse et Philosophie - InternationalSociety of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy(SIPP-ISPP); Department of ComparativeLiterature and Department of French, NYU

Workshop on Freud’s Three Essays on the The-ory of Sexuality based on the new translationof the original 1905 version (forthcoming,Verso Books, 2017). The first edition of thisclassic work from 1905 shows a radically dif-ferent psychoanalysis from the one that weknow today. Part I: Re-editing the 1905 Three EssaysPhilippe Van Haute (Radboud Univer-sity/University of Pretoria) Ulrike Kistner(University of Pretoria) Herman Westerink(Radboud University/University of Leuven) Part II: Re-Reading the 1905 Three EssaysEmily Apter (NYU), moderator Ben Kafka(NYU) Alexander Miller (NYU) Ann Pel-legrini (NYU) Stella Sanford (Kingston)

Le Gardien de nos frèresWith Ariane Bois (Journalist; novelist; au-thor of Sans oublier; Le Monde d’Hannah; LeGardien de nos frèresRespondent: Alexandra Steinlight (Depart-ment of History)

Vincent Crapanzano and Zahia Rahmani

Ivan Jablonka

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Abdellatif Laâbi’s Poems of Love and StruggleDonald Nicholson-Smith (Translator, Ab-dellatif Laâbi, In Praise of Defeat), and RobynCreswell (Assistant Professor of Compara-tive Literature, Yale University; poetry editor,The Paris Review)

Organized with Archipelago Books; part ofthe Sant Jordi in New York Festival organizedby The Farragut Fund for Catalan Culture inthe U.S. and the Catalan Institute of America

CONCERTSDurey Rediscovered With tenor William Burden, baritones JesseBlumberg and Sidney Outlaw, and pianistJocelyn DueckLouis Durey, a member of “Les Six” – aband of friends who created music in Parisduring and after the First World War – wrotesongs set to poetry by Mallarmé and Heine,Éluard, Hikmet and Audisio, and LangstonHughes. Durey’s music reflects the trajectoryof the 20th century and explores the political climate of the era. Durey’s unpublished music will soon beheard on a new recording. This concert pre-miered the previously unheard works. Co-sponsored by the David and Agatha MollCharitable Fund.

Guggenheim & Fontainebleau Music by Fontainebleau alumni composersand Guggenheim Fellows: Dalit Warshaw,Anthony Cheung, Elliott Carter Performed by: QUATORFONTAINEBLEAU CONTEMPORAINElizabeth Derham and Deborah Song - vi-olins; Jessica Garand - viola; Sofia Nowik- cello;Featuring Hannah Sun and DalitWarshaw – pianosCo-sponsored by the Fontainebleau Associa-tions

PEN WORLD VOICES FESTIVALAuto-FictionReadings and ConversationOddný Eir, Marcelino Truong and BaeSuah. Moderated by Sarah Gerard.

Female Writers and ResistanceRoundtable DiscussionMaïa Mazaurette, Lila Zemborain,Mariela Dreyfus, Simone Lappert, andJessie Chaffee. Moderated by RebeccaFalkoff.

GALAThe Gala Benefit on May 23rd, 2017 cele-brated the 60th anniversary of La MaisonFrançaise of NYU.

The evening featured a dazzling performanceby vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant (2016Grammy Award winner for best jazz album)and jazz pianist and composer Sullivan Fort-ner.

Durey Rediscovered concert - Jocelyn Dueck and SidneyOutlaw - photo credit Wayne Reich.

PEN - Auto-Fiction - Marcelino Truong, Oddny Eir, Sarah Gerard, Bae Suah

PEN - Female Writers and Resistance- Maia Mazaurette

Gala May 23 - Cecile McLorin Salvant and Sul-livan FortnerPhoto credit Beowulf Sheehan

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NYU PARIS HIGHLIGHTSPROGRAM NEWS: This past year, NYU Parishad the pleasure of welcoming one of themost diverse and engaging groups of stu-dents in recent years. The Liberal StudiesFreshmen and Global Liberal Studies Juniorscompleted their year in the French capitalwith students coming from our three portalsand majoring in more than 25 different pro-grams from 7 different schools.

One of the highlights of the semester was thevisit from NYU president Andy Hamilton onMarch 23rd and 24th. The president and hiswife had ample opportunities to meet withstudents, faculty, staff and alumni. They vis-ited the academic center, our residence halls,and were received by the president of the CitéInternationale Universitaire de Paris. Theytoured the facilities of the Institute for Re-search and Coordination in Acoustics/Music(IRCAM) with Steinhardt music technologystudents who are benefitting from our uniquepartnership with this internationallyrenowned institution. A lively reception foralumni was organized at the Centre GeorgesPompidou.

NEW TANDEM PARIS-NEW YORK:With Tan-dem, NYU Paris now offers students the op-portunity to improve their French anddiscover local culture through a linguistic ex-change with a student from the University ofParis.

NEW STAFFMEMBERS:Maura Fenotti, Man-ager for Academic Operations and StudentMobility, and Armand Erba, Communica-tions Coordinator.

NEW CLASSES: • Modern France from the Revolution to thePresent (E. Morena)• Pirates, Parrots, Poetry (E. Ostashevsky)• Babel (T. Porterfield)• Urban Ethnography: Paris (B. Epstein)• The Avant-Garde in Paris; Advanced Writ-ing Studio: Translation & Difference (E. Os-tashevsky)• Art’s Role in Race, Empire, & Universalism(T. Porterfield)• Advanced Writing Seminar: Writing aboutFood (M.L. Longworth)• Music Colleguium & Program Seminar (S.Paindrestre)• Cubism to Surrealism (D. Dupuis-Labbé)• Proust (E. Nicole)

GRADUATE PROGRAM: Six students enrolledin the last year of our M.A. Programs: 4 inTFFL, 4 in French Language & Civilization,and 1 in French Literature.

Lectures Highlights:• Bruno Cautrès (Sciences Po Paris), “FrenchElections 2017, What to Watch For”• Gerty Dambury (poet, novelist, metteur-en-scène), “Unmasking the Invisible in the Cul-tural Life of France”• Jeff Schaeffer (Associated Press) & Vivi-enne Walt (Time Magazine), “Journalism forthe 21st Century, Coverage & Career” (focuson the migrant crisis in France).

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES HIGHLIGHTS: • Overnight trips to: Marseille (to appreciateits cultural heritage and understand its richhistory of immigration); SoutheasternFrance, Orange and Nîmes (outposts of the

Roman Empire), the Loire Castles (the rich-ness of the French Renaissance), Volunteer-ing at the Calais “Help Refugees” Center (incollaboration with NYU London)

• Performances: Operas, ballets, dances,music, and theater such as Carmen, Midsum-mer Night’s Dream, Saburo Teshigawara’sFlexible Silence, Dvorak and Prokofiev,Cyrano de Bergerac, How to Become aParisian in an Hour, among others.

Left to right: Beth Epstein, Associate Director for Aca-demics hosts a dinner marking the end of academicworkshops with Natalia Jiménez (NYU Madrid), ConorBrady (Global Programs), Tanya Di Rienzo (NYU Flo-rence), Tom Andres and Delphine Stafford (NYU Paris)

President Hamilton met with NYU Paris students duringhis official visit at the Paris Academic Center last March

Students enjoying the spring sun in the gardens at theChâteau de Villandry in the Loire Valley.

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INSTITUTE OF FRENCH STUDIES HIGHLIGHTSPHD IN FRENCH STUDIES/HIS-TORY

Aro Velmet: Pasteur’s Empire: French Expertise,Colonialism, and Transnational Science, 1890-1940

Aro accepted a Marie Curie fellowship fromthe European Commission for a two-yearpostdoc at Oxford and a tenured position inModern European history at the Universityof Southern California for Fall 2018.

MA IN FRENCH STUDIESAnni DiCamille JonesAriel Mond Shannon MorrisTristan MurrayMiranda NelsonCatherine Ollinger Sherry ReddixPatricia Woodcome Xiaolong Wu

VISITING PROFESSORSSylvie Thénault Laurent Martin Sylvie Lindeperg Laure Bereni

AWARDSAro Velmet: Remarque Institute; Josephinede Karman Dissertation Completion Fellow-ship

Sam Presnal: Remarque Institute Fellowship

Ian Merkel: Fullbright-Hays grant; JerroldSeigel Prize from consortium for Intellectualand Cultural History

Eric Meddles: Mainzer Summer Fellowship Gabriella Lindsay: ENS Exchange; Ameri-can Society of the Legion Honor Summer

Fellowship

Hannah Leffingwell: CIRHUS SummerFellowship

Allison Korinek: Camargo Foundation Fel-lowship; Marandon Fellowship; Social Sci-ence Research Council Fellowship; ProvostGRI Fellowship

Sarah Griswold: Beaujour Fellowship

Alexander Arnold: Beaujour Fellowship

LECTURESChristophe Boltanski (Journalist): En margede la guerre (France, Afrique, Moyen-Orient)

Sarah Gensburger and Gérôme Truc(CNRS; UPOND-ENS Cachan) Paris inShock. Traces and Memory of the 2015 TerroristAttacks

Nicole C. Rudolph (Adelphi University) AtHome in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housingand the Right to Comfort (Berghahn, 2015)

Rebecca Rogers (Université Paris Descartes,Sorbonne Paris Cité) Gendering French ColonialHistory. Madame Luce and her School for MuslimGirls in 19th-Century Algeria

ROUNDTABLESA Permanent State of Emergency? Views fromFrance and the US. With Susan Herman(ACLU),Nicolas Fischer (CESDIP, CNRS),Sylvie Thénault (Centre d’histoire sociale,CNRS).

Roundtable honoring the 2014-15 laureate ofthe Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies.Charly Coleman for The Virtues of Abandon:An Anti-Individualist History of the French En-lightenment (Stanford University Press, 2014).With Charly Coleman, Lucien Nouis

(NYU), Helena Rosenblatt (CUNY Grad-uate Center), John Shovlin (NYU), andStéphane Gerson (NYU).

CONFERENCEThe French National Front -- and Beyond: A GlobalPopulist Moment?

Organized by the Institute of French Studies, NYU incollaboration with the Center for French Civilization andCulture, NYU. With the support of the Center for Eu-ropean and Mediterranean Studies, NYU.

Panel discussions: 1. Sexual Politics with Kahtleen Blee (Univer-sity of Pittsburgh), Anika Keinz (EuropeanUniversity Viadrina), Cornelia Möser(CRESSPA, CNRS).

2. Populism from Below: Ethnographers at Workwith Don Kalb (Central European Univer-sity), Christèle Marchand-Lagier (Univer-sité d’Avignon) and Rachel Meade (BrownUniversity)

3. Keynote: A Populist Moment? With ÉricFassin (Université Paris 8 – Vincennes –Saint Denis)

4. Populism and the Media: Journalists at WorkWith Clare Malone (Fivethirtyeight.com,USA), Sofia Papaioannou (Alpha TV,Greece), Michael Slackman (New YorkTimes, USA) and Marine Turchi (Media-part, France)

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