Seminar Library
Founded in 1989, the Triangle French History and Culture Seminar has a long tradition of fostering interdisciplinary scholarship on the histories and cultures of the French-speaking world by scholars in the Triangle region and beyond. This is a non-exhaustive and ever-growing list of some of the books and articles that have been workshopped in the seminar on their way to publication in recent years.
Agmon, Danna. A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018. (ISBN 9781501713071) – Spring 2015
Barthe, Pascale. “Convivialité et connivence à Ispahan : Jean-Baptiste Tavernier à la cour de Shah Abbas II.” Dix-septième siècle 278, no. 1 (2018): 83-98. (https://doi.org/10.3917/dss.181.0083) – Spring 2016
Bauer, Nicole. Tracing the Shadow of Secrecy and Government Transparency in Eighteenth-Century France. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. (ISBN 9783031122354) – Fall 2016
Behrent, Michael C. “A Case for the Young Foucault.” Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 34, no. 3 (2022): 299-340 (https://doi.org/10.1080/08913811.2022.2152253) – Fall 2019
—. Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. (ISBN 9781512825138) – Fall 2016
Carroll, Christina B. The Politics of Imperial Memory in France, 1850-1900. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. (ISBN 9781501763083) – Spring 2013
Gardner, Darci L. “Cognitive Bias and Narrative Credibility in Proust.” Philosophy and Literature 45, no. 1 (2021): 1-16 (https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0000) – Fall 2018
Garval, Michael. “Visions of Pork Production, Past and Future, on French Belle Epoque Pig Postcards.” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 14, no. 1 (2015) (https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring15/garval-on-visions-of-pork-production-past-and-future-french-belle-epoque-postcards) – Fall 2013
Harris, Jeffrey Ryan, “Encyclopédistes, Magistrates, and the Corporate General Will: The Argument for the Vote by Order in the Prerevolutionary Crisis,” French Historical Studies 45, no. 3 (2022): 451–480. (https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-9746601) – Fall 2017
Harrison, Carol E., “Conversion in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Alphonse Ratisbonne in Rome and Paris,” Journal of Modern History 92, no. 1 (2020): 116-44. (https://doi.org/10.1086/707374) – Spring 2017
Haynes, Christine “Navigating the Emotional Storm of 1791: The Lamarque Family in Paris, the Landes, and Saint Lucia.” In French Revolutionary Lives, edited by David A. Bell and Colin Jones. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, (ISBN 9783031605215) – Spring 2023
— Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018. (ISBN 9780674972315) – Spring 2016
Johnson, James H. Paris Concealed: Masks in the City of Light. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. (ISBN 9780226836461) –Fall 2017
Jones, Colin. “The Overthrow of Maximilien Robespierre and the ‘Indifference’ of the People.” American Historical Review 119, no. 3 (2014): 689-713. (https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/119.3.689) – Fall 2014
Kaplan, Alice. Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016 (ISBN 9780226241678) – Spring 2015
Kim, Annabel L. Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 2018. (ISBN 9780814276624) – Fall 2015
Kramer, Lloyd. Traveling to Unknown Places: Nineteenth-Century Journeys Toward French and American Selfhood. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024. (ISBN 9781469682389) – Spring 2014
Ludinton, Charles C. “Inventing Grand Cru Claret: Irish Wine Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux.” In The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts, Relations, and Commodities, edited by Charles C. Ludington (Routledge, 2020) (ISBN 9781032228075) – Fall 2019
Matharoo, Sean Singh. “Towards an Anthropology of Astonishment.” Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal 55, no. 2 (2022): 127-143 (https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mos.2022.a948442) — Spring 2022
Matytsin, Anton M. “Enlightenment and Erudition: Writing Cultural History at the Académie des inscriptions,” Modern Intellectual History, vol. 19, no. 2 (2022): 323-48. (https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244321000068) – Spring 2019
McMahon, Darrin M. Divine Fury: A History of Genius. New York: Basic Books, 2013 (ISBN 9780465003259) – Spring 2013
McWilliam, Neil. The Aesthetics of Reaction: Tradition, Faith, Identity, and the Visual Arts in France, 1900-1914. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2021. (ISBN 9782503591575) – Spring 2016
Mulvey, Michael. “What Was So Funny about Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973): A Comedic Film between History and Memory.” French Politics, Culture, and Society 35, no. 3 (2017): 24-43. (https://doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2017.350302) – Spring 2012
Ozerkevich, Rachel. “Public Participation and Amateur Exclusivity: Revisiting the Depiction of the 1900 Paris Games in the Illustrated Sports Press” in Sport in Paris: Retracing the Culture of Play and Games in the City of Light (1854–2024), edited by Maxence Leconte. Peter Lang, 2025 (ISBN 9781803742359) — Spring 2022
Palmer, Jennifer L. “‘She persisted in her revolt’: Between Slavery and Freedom in Saint-Domingue,” Social History/Histoire Sociale 53, no.107 (2020):17-41. (https://doi.org/10.1353/his.2020.0002 ) – Spring 2018
Parker, Thomas. Tasting Terroir: The History of an Idea. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. (ISBN 9780520961333)– Spring 2014
Popkin, Jeremy. “Thermidor, Slavery, and the ‘Affaire des colonies.’” French Historical Studies 38, no. 1 (2015): 61-82. (https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-2822697) – Spring 2013
Reddy, William. “The Paradox of Modernity: Current Debates and Their Implications for the Seventeenth Century.” Modern Intellectual History 14, no. 1 (2017): 217-56. (https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244315000062) – Spring 2015
Reid, Donald. Opening the Gates: The Lip Affair, 1968-1981. London: Verso, 2018. (ISBN 9781786635402) – Spring 2013
Reid, Donald and Daniel Sherman. “May ’68: New Approaches, New Perspectives,” spec. issue. French Historical Studies 41, no. 2 (2018). (ISSN 0016-1071) – Spring 2017
Robcis, Camille. “Catholics, the ‘Theory of Gender,’ and the Turn to the Human in France: A New Dreyfus Affair?” The Journal of Modern History 87, no. 4 (2015): 892-923. (https://doi.org/10.1086/683599) – Spring 2015
Rudosky, Christina, “Surrealist Objects.” In Surrealism, edited by Natalya Lusty, 151-75. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108862639) – Spring 2018
Saliot, Anne-Gaëlle. “Jean-Luc Godard et Maurice Pialat lisant Musset : rêves et restes d’une théâtralité romantique,” French Screen Studies 20, no. 1 (2020): 6-22. (https://doi.org/10.1080/14715880.2018.1558028) – Fall 2017
Serchuk, Camille. Lies of the Land: Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025. (ISBN 9780271097732) – Spring 2015
Sherman, Daniel J. Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2025. (ISBN 9780226835372) – Spring 2020
—. “The Perils of Patrimoine: Art, History, and Narrative in the Immigration History Museum, Paris.” Oxford Art Journal 39, no. 2 (2016): 457-80. (http://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcw033) – Fall 2011
Smith, Jay M. “Dreadful Enemies: The ‘Beast,’ the Hyena, and Natural History in the Enlightenment.” Modern Intellectual History 13, no. 1 (2016): 33-61. (https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244315000050) – Fall 2012
Solterer, Helen. “A Timely Villon: Anachrony & Premodern Poetic Fiction.” New Literary History 52, vol. 2 (2021): 311-334. (https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2021.0014) – Spring 2016
Stempniak, Kasia, “Dressing the Eiffel Tower: Fashion and Architecture in Fin de Siècle Paris.” French Historical Studies 43, no. 2 (2020): 253-70 (https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-8018497) – Fall 2018
Stewart, Joan Hine, “The Maid and the Milkmaid: Joan of Arc and Marie Antoinette.” The French Review 93, no. 4 (2020): 13-30. (https://doi.org/10.1353/tfr.2020.0089) – Fall 2018
Surkis, Judith. Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. (ISBN 9781501739507) – Fall 2016
Tanner, Jessica. Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2023. (ISBN 9780810145849) – Fall 2014
Terjanian, Anoush. Commerce and its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. (ISBN 9781139776301) – Spring 2012
Tilburg, Patricia, Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880–1919, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 (ISBN 9780198841173) – Fall 2020
Van Ginderachter, Maarten. The Everyday Nationalism of Workers: A Social History of Modern Belgium. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. (ISBN 9781503609051) – Fall 2017
Welch, Ellen R. A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. (ISBN 9780812293869) – Spring 2014
Williard, Ashley. Engendering Islands: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Violence in the Early French Caribbean. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. (ISBN 9781496225474) – Fall 2016
Yates, Alexia, “Investor Letters and the Everyday Practice of Finance in Nineteenth-Century France,” French Historical Studies 44, no. 2, (2021): 279–305. (https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-8806468) – Spring 2020