I teach modern French literature and culture at Wellesley College, where I am Professor and Chair of the Department of French, Francophone, and Italian Studies. My books and articles draw on translation theory, book history, and media studies to frame our understanding of 20th and 21st-century French fiction. As a former Newhouse Faculty Fellow and Camargo Fellow in Cassis, I completed my most recent book, New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American (Stanford University Press [Post*45], 2025). I am currently preparing a new cultural history about a wartime artists’ community in Oppède, France.
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