The official Bluesky of the Society for Early Modern French Studies (SEMFS). Visit us at https://www.semfs.org.uk/ . For our peer-reviewed journal, 'Early Modern French Studies', see https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/yemf20
Histoire, Réception de l’Antiquité, France, XIXe, Université d'Athènes
Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements.
Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Robinmitchellhistorian.com
Historian | 18thc France, sci/med, gender | Author: Sentimental Savants (UChicago) | Currently: Enlightenment public health & medical authority | she/her | My views | meghankroberts.com
Historian of France/labor/gender/sex, history prof and chair. Author, _Working Girls_ on sexual politics of 19c-20c Parisian garment trades; & _Colette’s Republic_ on belle epoque popular culture. she/her https://patriciatilburg.com/
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
Organisme public 🇫🇷 de recherche pluridisciplinaire, le Centre national de la recherche scientifique c'est 33 000 personnes qui font avancer la connaissance. #HelloESR
assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france/empire/culture; nuclear things; pop music; world endings; founding/former host-new books in french studies; brown; settler; NOT my employer
roxannepanchasi.com
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Historian 19th c. France & empire; gender, race, & sexuality; social movements; Paris Commune;
names.
Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. http://www.andrewisraelross.com 🏳️🌈
they/them, Art Historian
I care a lot (too much?)
Not repping any institution
Historian of early modern and eighteenth-century France who sees historical parallels everywhere. Interested in fashion, gender, politics, food. And cat photos.
historian, modern France, gender, loves goldens, cats, knitting, gardening, & justice. she/her. trans rights are human rights.
Assistant Prof of French @ Harvard. c19-20; gender/sexuality; print culture; queer lit & reading. Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France shipping now from Cornell 🌈🌱 😷♾️
Historian of modern 🇫🇷. Gender, celebrity, beauty. Professor. Friend to all creatures furry and feathered. All views expressed are my own.
Historian, especially of France, gender, revolution, colonialism, and much else. Co-editor of French Historical Studies (send good articles our way!)
Low-key hiker and biker, mystery novel reader, traveler.
Historian of France—race, gender, sexuality, empire, migration. Author of Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Cornell University Press). https://tinyurl.com/ejs3udt2. Views expressed are my own.
Society for scholars and students of French in higher education
https://www.sfs.ac.uk
French prof at Harvard // UNBECOMING LANGUAGE (OSUP 2018) // CACAPHONIES (Minn 2022) // dua lipa stan & miley cyrus enthusiast // VERY into cats // vegan climate griever
Associate Professor of Art History at American University; author of Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde (2013) and Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris (forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2025).
A history podcast by @dhmontgomery.com covering France's overlooked century between Napoleon and World War I. Annotated transcripts at thesiecle.com!
https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
PhD from University at Buffalo | Early Modern/Modern French views of North Africa | Education, translators, and community/belonging | They/He
Cultural history of the French 19th century @ Austin College. Book review editor @ NCFS. “Culture of War” now out in paperback https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-culture-of-war-9781837644131
Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
Author of "What Proust Heard" & the Misfit Trilogy: "The Misfit of the Family," "Never Say I," "Someone." Throw in some translating, piano, yoga, and cats.
Assistant Professor of French, San Diego State University. Web Editor, H-France Forum. Interested in the histories and legacies of empire. Writing a book on literary adaptation and racial formation.
Academic perfumista. Reader, writer, professor, adult child of the linguistic turn. Not necessarily in that order. I am my dog’s human.
Author of Pefume on the Page in Nineteenth-Century France.
French and Global 19C prof. Accessories to Modernity and Behind the Seams. Dogs know best.
Recovering Academic. French and Francophone Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, C19 researcher, feminist, queer, coffee addict.
Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
Historian of the French and Danish colonial empires, political economy, slavery, and abolition. Mom of two little vikings. Author of "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire".
Senior Lecturer in French Studies @ilcs.bsky.social | literature, culture and post/colonialism, comparative/world literature, Algerian culture/history | multilingualism and environments 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast | President @asmcf.bsky.social | Views my own.
MCF en histoire contemporaine (ENS-PSL - IHMC)
Guerre d'Espagne (1936-1939), trafic d'armes, histoire transnationale
Compte personnel
Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
My book, Colonial Negatives, is available for preorder now! https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785320/colonial-negatives/#bookTabs=1
| Historian of France, technology, and cities | e/ludd | 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇬🇪🇸 | You can find out more about me at http://www.patrickdeoliveira.com | ICE is a terrorist organization |
History Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan | PC(USA) Deacon | Modern Europe & Iran | Apocalyptic & New Testament Studies
Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
Associate Prof of French & Francophone Studies @Georgetown; Works on 19thC pop culture. Current MoCo resident; from Walla Walla. Opinions my own.
Dubliner in SW England. Commuter. Often found at weekends on strangers' doorsteps, asking questions. Otherwise, head regularly found in nineteenth-century France.
Art Historian| Associate
Professor 19-20C French Art| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN) offers a lively forum for the dissemination of research on French and Francophone studies in the long 19th century.
Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
🇫🇷🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇴 Docteur en histoire (Sorbonne Université) | XXe s. | Histoire politique | Histoire des relations internationales | Histoire de l’Europe médiane | 📚➡️ https://cv.hal.science/matthieu-boisdron
Associate Professor of History @kcollege. Modern France, imperialism, politics, culture. Views my own.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501763083/the-politics-of-imperial-memory-in-france/
Associate Prof in French at St Catz, Oxford. Works on imagination, posterity, death, self-fashioning, theatre in C18. Mother of 4yo & 7yo. Views my own.
Maître de conférences en littérature française
Université Paris Cité
Histoire littéraire de la Révolution française
Imaginaires de la Révolution de 1789 à nos jours
Literary History of the French Revolution
Imagining the Revolution (1789 to Present)
Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/
Historian of 19th-century France—juvenile incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia)
Book: "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Based in Sydney, Australia
Writing about freedom, uncertainty, and precarity in early modern France.
https://www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/content/dr-luke-osullivan
Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
f. 1886 as Modern Language Notes • Published @hopkinspress.bsky.social • Issues: Italian, Yiddish & Hebrew, Spanish & Portuguese, German, French, and Comparative Literature
MLNJournal@jh.edu
JWSFH is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring scholarship n France & the francophone world. The journal is published once annually in an open-access, online format.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/
The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
Associate Prof., UNC-CH. 19th-c French lit, novels, theory, history of sex and sexuality, weather and climate. Minnesotan in NC. First gen. Herder of aged cat. Book: SEX WORK, TEXT WORK (Northwestern UP, 2023).
PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
Docteur en histoire | Enseignant et chercheur (CRIMIC @sorbonne-universite.fr)
Histoire de l'hispanisme et circulation des idées réactionnaires (Espagne-France-Amériques)
Literature in French and Welsh/Cymraeg, travel writing, translation studies, comparative literature, minority studies, nineteenth century, Brittany/Breizh, Society of Dix-neuviémistes
Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Lecturer at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
Senior lecturer in French at Bangor University. Author of 'Humour in Contemporary France' and publications about comedy, cinema and sport in France. From Scotland and powered by porridge. https://linktr.ee/jonathan_ervine
Solo Mum By Choice to gorgeous boy, Associate Dean of EDI @Cardiff University, Academic in French Studies,18th and 19th century France scholar, Medical Humanities, Narrative Reproductive Medicine, 21st century life writing around donor conception
Big fan of nineteenth-century France. I also like writing about women who make art.
All things related to the study of French & Francophone History & Culture. The official BlueSky feed of the H-France website (www.h-france.net).
The Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies promotes research on the Francophone world. Links & RTs ≠ endorsements.
Website: https://sfps.org.uk/
Upcoming Conference "Fanon at 100: Revolutionary Afterlives": https://sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-events/
Associate Prof in French, Durham University. Poet, in Acropolis, Atrium, After, Dust, Dreich, IceFloePress, Indigo Dreams, Ink, Sweat & Tears, others. Editor at Paragraph, EUP.
French History Seminar / Séminaire d'Histoire de France, Toronto, Canada (profile images: http://Europeana.eu) Posts by @SchotteMargaret
Professor of translation studies at the University of Geneva and academic translator. Recent books: Professional Translators in 19th-c France and Translating Science in the 18th & 19th c. Now working on an industry guide for aspiring book translators.
Humboldt fellow at Bamberg, FRHistS | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
Assistant Professor of French at Athabasca University working on autism, literature & the medical humanities • Auteur chez Poètes de brousse • Anxious singer-songwriter • Autiste
(he/him•il/lui)
PhD in History from IUBloomington on archival labor and the French Revolution. Works for American Historical Review. Knitter, cyclist, cat bed, and ardent fountain pen enthusiast. www.hannahnmalcolm.com Lumbee. they/them
Historian interested in media & memory., and currently working on Franco-German memory politics.
Teach French Studies @unigoettingen.bsky.social
Project coordinator & Senior researcher @ABI-Freiburg.bsky.social
Lecturer at AUP, Phd candidate NYU History and IFS (France, Fr Caribbean, race, colonialism, citizenship) and journalist (k-12 edu). Philly/Brooklyn/Paris. Columbia Journalism alum
Associate Prof. France/Empire | PhD @Harvard | Film Photo | Literature | Spiritually Vancouverite | All views are my own: repost/like/follow/link≠endorsement
assistant professor at UCD. gender violence in French and Francophone history, literature and cultures. Writing a book on cultural responses to intimate violence during WWI; current research on 20C Senegal.
Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
historian, mom, wyf, nerd, admirer of finely wrought crafts, collage artist, and cheerleader of students and friends
Writer, historian, teacher, husband, cat owner, thrower of pots. Author of In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism (WW Norton).
Cultist, academic, homebrewer. Beckett, art history & visual culture, forensics, visual medical humanities. Care, healthcare evidence, visual worlds. Installation art. University of Exeter. Author, Visual Culture & the Forensic. https://shorturl.at/oeLZp
Birthright Citizen. Assoc. Prof TCU, author of Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France. Now working on aging and older women (funded by the NEH.)
I have 2 cats.
Views are my own (or my cats’).
Living every week like it’s shark week.
writer
PhD in French at Cambridge on ontological multiplicity & the phenomenological aesthetics of desire, mourning & melancholia in Nerval, Proust, & Duras
Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) at U of Alberta • Early modern New France and France (literature, history, theatre) • Translator/translation studies • Zags hoops • books • academic life.
*Just published: The Jesuit Relations: A Biography*
French Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Research: contemporary French authorship (écrivain médiatique), gender, banlieues, visual culture & sociological approaches.
Historian of police forces, anti-labour movements, and gun control @DISSGEA (Unipd) - @LARHRA
Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France
https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
Political theory PhD candidate, UC Berkeley polisci | Rousseau & XVIIIe siècle
BA University of Toronto
https://antonia-alksnis.weeblysite.com/
Championing French & francophone teaching and research in the UK & Ireland. Open to all in HE French.
Previously the Association of University Professors and Heads of French
Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Queer Medical Humanities and Philosophies of the Hospital! 🏥🏳️🌈 Founder of the Queer Medical Humanities Network + programme lead for MA Global Medical and Health Humanities
French PhD Candidate at Boston University. Dix-neuviémiste-in-training researching eating disorders in nineteenth-century French literature. Certified silly goose.
Historian of eighteenth-century France, of sex and gender. Associate Professor at Clark University. Lover of all things winter, baking, and Paris. Inveterate reader. Mother to two teens, human to two dogs, and spouse to my husband.
Professor, mom, friend, lazy gardener, vegetarian cook
