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New Books in French Studies

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The French Médersa: Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa (Cornell UP, 2026) explores how the French state pursued a century-long project of bicultural Franco-Muslim education in its northwest African colonies, resulting in a new type of s... more

Through a postcolonial lens, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere (Liverpool, 2025) explores the various ways in which francophone writers, visual artists and activists are responding to the global climate and environmental crises threatening th... more

Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities (U Virginia Press, 2026) examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical ... more

Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe’s Edges (Fordham, 2025) investigates the consequences of unfolding catastrophes across the world and the displacement they continue to produce. Through recent narratives and media representations of the r... more

Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by nuns who live in that world but do not allow others to have access. This has often resulted in rese... more

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 Borestel went door-to-door questioning his neighbors about an alleged sexual assault—and about the vi... more

Baudelaire's Objects (Bloomsbury,

2026) examines Baudelaire's multifaceted use of natural, domestic,

urban, and esthetic objects in his verse and prose poetry, as well as

the ways his poems reshape our understanding of objects and how those

objec... more

In the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first evolutionary theory of life and, with it, a new science: biology. Yet for centuries, evolutionary theorists have endeavored to discredit Lamarck and his t... more

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Recent Guests

Debarati Sanyal
Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Episode: Debarati Sanyal, "Arts of the Border: Fugitive Bodies at Europe’s Edges" (Fordham, 2025)
Francesca Sbardella
Author of Inhabiting Silence, An Anthropologist in the Cloister (Berghahn Books, 2025)
University of Bologna; Author
Episode: Francesca Sbardella, "Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister" (Berghahn Books, 2025)
Sara McDougall
Author of Justice for Jehanne, The Tale of a Medieval Survivor
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Episode: Sara McDougall, "Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Joseph Acquisto
Professor of French and Director of the School of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Vermont
University of Vermont
Episode: Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Jessica Riskin
Author of The Power of Life, The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Stanford University
Episode: Jessica Riskin, "The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck" (Penguin, 2026)
Xiaofan Amy Li
Associate Professor in Comparative Cultural Studies, University College London; author of The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures
University College London
Episode: Xiaofan Amy Li, "The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures" (Cambridge UP, 2026)
Sara Pappas
Associate Professor of French and Visual Culture at the University of Richmond
University of Richmond
Episode: Sara Pappas, "Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Chris Hodson
Co-author, Beyond the Ocean, France and the Atlantic World
University affiliation as discussed in episode
Episode: Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, "Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Brett Rushforth
Co-author, Beyond the Ocean, France and the Atlantic World
University affiliation as discussed in episode
Episode: Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, "Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions" (Oxford UP, 2026)

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Gina Stamm
Host with multiple affiliations in French studies and New Books Network channels; frequently guides interviews with authors.

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Francesca Sbardella, "Inhabiting Silence: An Anthropologist in the Cloister" (Berghahn Books, 2025)
Q: Everything is great. So to begin, could you introduce yourself to our listeners?
Francesca introduces herself as an anthropologist and historian of religions, teaches at the University of Bologna, and describes her focus on contemporary European religion, monastic life, and the materiality of sacred practices.
Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Q: You've talked about the lyric subject and the art object as a key pair. Why are these important stipulations for understanding Baudelaire?
The lyric subject refers to the voice within the poem, while the art object is the work itself. The discussion emphasizes how the subject becomes porous and transformed by interaction with objects, and how art objects can possess agency that influences interpretation without dissolving the subject–object distinction entirely.
Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Q: And when you talk about objects here, you delimit the idea of object in a very specific way. Could you tell us a little more about the theoretical underpinnings and how you categorize objects in the chapters?
Acquisto explains that objects are categorized into natural, domestic, urban, and aesthetic groups, with an emphasis on their interaction with the lyric subject and their ability to resist simple assimilation. The framework is rooted in Adorno's non-identity, Bill Brown's thing theory, and a cautious critique of new materialism that values both subject and object in a dynamic, dialectical relation.
Joseph Acquisto, "Baudelaire's Objects" (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Q: So to start off with, could you tell us about the genesis and development of this project?
The project grew from a long-standing interest in Baudelaire, building on prior work about Baudelaire with Adorno to develop a new understanding of subjectivity through the lens of objects. The book structures its chapters around natural, domestic, urban, and aesthetic objects and situates these within debates in philosophy and literary theory, especially critique of the new materialism.
Sara Pappas, "Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Q: How does Zola's view of art and the Salon change over time, and what does that reveal about the period?
Zola's views shift from a strict doctrinal naturalism to a more nuanced, sometimes conflicted stance on various art forms; through his novels and essays, the discussion shows a struggle to form a cohesive master narrative about art, while remaining critical of how salons and exhibitions commercialize or restrict artistic expression.

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This show focuses on scholarly interviews with authors of recent books in humanities, especially French studies, history, and related fields. Conversations center on the book's arguments, methodological choices, and broader cultural or theoretical implications, often weaving in how the work fits into ongoing debates in world literature, race and representation, transatlantic histories, and visual culture. Guests are typically university professors, researchers, or scholars presenting nuanced, research-driven perspectives, with the host guiding the discussion to illuminate key themes, case studies, and future directions. A notable strength is the breadth of cross-disciplinary guests and rigorous, graduate-level discourse, making it a strong ... more

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