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Congratulations to Madeleine Dobie, the recipient of the 2026 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Mentoring Award. This honor recognizes Madeleine’s unwavering dedication to our graduate students—both M.A.s and Ph.Ds.
We congratulate our colleagues, Joanna Stalnaker, the recipient of the 2026 Division of Humanities in Arts and Sciences Award for Academic Excellence, and Nicole Meily, Director of Academic Administration and Finance in French and Philosophy. Nicole has been selected for the 2026 Division of Humanities in Arts and Sciences Award for Community Building and Engagement.
Joanna Stalnaker’s new book, The Rest Is Silence, has just been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal by Ruth Scurr, who calls it “fascinating” and an “original and beautifully written book.” (CU students, faculty, and staff have access to this content through the Libraries.)
Warm congratulations go out to Laetitia Ndiaye on the successful defense of her dissertation, Writing and Seeing the World: language, movement and identity in Francophone literature and cinema.
Recent Publications
Antoine Compagnon reconstructs the cultural, intellectual as well as political and social history of the "wondrous year 1966" and demonstrates brilliantly that it was a true rupture between two eras of French history.
How did the Enlightenment end? In The Rest Is Silence, Joanna Stalnaker paints an intimate, moving portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment.
In Les volontaires, Thomas Dodman unearths the intimate history of an anonymous family of French revolutionaries as they sought to establish and find their place in a society of equals.