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New Books in French Studies

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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ... more

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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 Photographic Firsts (Duke UP, 2026), Doucet analyzes the historical and material production of the ... more

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Recent Guests

Emily Doucet
Writer, editor, and researcher focused on photography and the cultural life of technology
Framing Devices; Duke University Press (book publisher)
Episode: Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
Joanna Stalnaker
Professor of French at Columbia University, author of The Rest Is Silence
Columbia University
Episode: Joanna Stalnaker, "The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death" (Yale UP, 2025)
Christina Lord
Associate Professor of French, University of North Carolina Wilmington
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Episode: Christina Lord, "Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
William Barylo
Research fellow at the University of Warwick
University of Warwick
Episode: Radio ReOrient S14:10: Muslims in the Neoliberal Era, with William Barylo, hosted by Salman Sayyid and Amina Easat-Daas
Emmanuel Buzay
Author of Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels, The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal
Palgrave Macmillan (publisher)
Episode: Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Tim Roberts
Author of After Barbary, Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires
Cornell University Press
Episode: Timothy Mason Roberts, "After Barbary: Algeria's Roles in the French and American Empires" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Damien Van Puyvelde
Associate professor and head of the Intelligence and Security Research Group at Leiden University; research fellow with the Strategic Research Institute of the French Ministry of the Armed Forces
Leiden University
Episode: Damien Van Puyvelde, "The DGSE: A Concise History of France's Foreign Intelligence Service" (Georgetown UP, 2026)
Denise Davidson
Professor of History and Director of the Humanities Research Center
Georgia State University
Episode: Denise Z. Davidson, "Surviving Revolution: Bourgeois Lives and Letters" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Dr. Benjamin Dalton
Lecturer in French studies, Lancaster University
Lancaster University
Episode: Benjamin Dalton, "Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film: Witnessing Plasticity" (Edinburgh UP, 2026)

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Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)
Q: Can you talk a little bit about that process in Nadar's lifetime regarding patents and invention?
Doucet discusses how Nadar used patents to frame his ideas, how possessions of patents functioned as branding, and how invention is often a staged performance that precedes technical realization.
Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Q: How does reading function as a vector for resistance across the novels you study?
Reading enables the narrative species to reclaim its singularity from impersonal code and to puncture the linguistic constraints of oppressive systems, functioning as a shield and tool for critical self-understanding.
Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Q: How did you develop your corpus and decide how to organize the book?
An advisor encouraged expanding beyond traditional SF and including mainstream, dystopian, and trans fiction to reflect a full spectrum of narratives and to map how different genres express human concerns about technology and identity.
Emmanuel Buzay, "Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to be Written and Its Refusal" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Q: Can you tell us a bit about the relationship between science fiction and mythology, and how that contributes to your argument about dual identity?
The dual identity concept bridges plausible technological extrapolations with ancient, immemorial imagination structures, showing how mythic patterns recur in speculative futures and grounding the mind's interaction with technology.
Christina Lord, "Reimagining the Human in Contemporary French Science Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
Q: And what kind of relationship between humanity and other primates do you think is articulated in this book?
The book treats primates as a lens to unsettle anthropocentric hierarchies, showing that evolutionary kinship can destabilize human superiority and invite a broader consideration of non-human agency across literature and film.

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The show features in-depth conversations with university scholars who have recently published books, covering a wide range of humanities topics such as history, literature, film studies, anthropology, and cultural history. Episodes typically center on a single author or editor and their latest work, exploring archival discoveries, methodological approaches, and broader social or political implications. A standout trait is the emphasis on cross-disciplinary perspectives—linking literature, philosophy, architecture, and media—with attention to how scholarly work speaks to public audiences. For prospective listeners, it's a strong fit if you enjoy rigorously sourced, academically grounded discussions that still illuminate real-world contexts a... more

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