New Books in French Studies is a New Books Network podcast series that I launched in 2013. If you’re an author with a new or forthcoming book who might be interested in an interview, or if you’re a listener with a recent title to suggest, please send me an email.
FAQ/INFO sheet for authors.
THE INTERVIEWS
An interview with Rachel Mesch about Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth -Century France (Stanford University Press, 2020). Listen here.
An interview with Annette Joseph-Gabriel about Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (University of Press, 2020). Listen here.
An interview with Kory Olson about The Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris (Liverpool University Press 2018). Listen here.
An interview with Arthur Asseraf about Electric News In Colonial Algeria (Oxford University Press, 2019). Listen here.
An interview with Todd Shepard about Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979 (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Listen here.
An interview with Jennifer Cazenave about An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (SUNY Press, 2019). Listen here.
An interview with Gillian Glaes about African Political Activism in Postcolonial France: State Surveillance and Social Welfare (Routledge Books, 2018). Listen here.
An interview with Michael Vann about The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt (Oxford University Press, 2018). Listen here.
An interview with Annabel Kim about Unbecoming Language (The Ohio State University Press, 2018). Listen here.
An interview with Catherine Clark about Paris and the Cliché of History (Oxford University Press, 2018). Listen here.
An interview with Mark Braude about The Invisible Emperor (Penguin Press, 2018). Listen here.
An interview with Emma Kuby about Political Survivors (Cornell University Press, 2019). Listen here.
An interview with Donald Reid about Opening the Gates (Verso Books, 2018). Listen here.
An interview with Joan Wallach Scott about Sex and Secularism (Princeton University Press, 2017). Listen here.
BACK CATALOG
Thomas Dodman, What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
