Colin Foss
@colin_foss
Cultural history of the French 19th c | Associate Professor of French @austincollege | Midd '10, Yale '16 | he/him
The obsession the world has with Haiti is exhausting. We’re constantly fighting to defend our humanity, to justify our existence. As we work to advance our people, we’re simultaneously tasked with debunking vile, baseless accusations. They’ve yet to forgive Haiti for being black.
I am a professor and as of today, I quit my position as Artist-in-Residence #ColumbiaUniversity which I have served for the past two years. I am an Associate Professor at Hunter College and in support of the courageous student protestors at Columbia, I cannot in good conscience..
La Grande Dame des Lettres mondiales, Maryse Condé, tire sa révérence, nous léguant une œuvre portée par la quête d’un humanisme fondé sur les ramifications de nos identités et les fêlures de l’Histoire. RIP.
Delighted to work with such great scholars on this book about the cultural consequences of the Franco-Prussian #War. Out today. #guerre #commune @PULyon @MMLL_Cambridge Lendemains de défaite | Presses universitaires de Lyon pul.univ-lyon2.fr/product/show/9…
Really looking forward to conversation with @colin_foss about my @northwesternup book Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel TOMORROW (Friday 2/16; 2-3pm; on Zoom) as part of #NCFSUnbound. Register here: southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
In 1858, ten young Senegalese men were sent to France aboard L’Yonne to apprentice as mechanics. By 1860, their families had no news as eleven more boarded the same ship to the same fate! What happened to them?
Racquel elegantly states something I too have suspected — a turn in reading culture that (I believe) is surely related to the rise of “content.” No use fighting or lamenting that people *experientially identify* with art so how do we revolutionize disciplinary approach?
At a state park doing the hunger games salute to the cowboy who, in jeans hat and boots, lit up a cigarette as he walked into a 8-mile mountain biking trail in the Texas wilderness
NCFS is proud to be one of the @UNPjournals signing on to @ProjectMUSE’s ‘Subscribe to Open’ (S2O) scheme. Rather than have authors pay for open access fees, MUSE will make journal content available via #OpenAccess as long as libraries continue to subscribe to the journal.
At the Nineteenth-Century French Studies (@NCFSassoc) Colloquium in Baltimore (@JohnsHopkins)? Stay tuned for an exciting @UNPjournals announcement from @NCFS_journal editor Seth Whidden this evening…
Check out my latest @NewBooksNetwork interview with @LucyVSwanson and her brilliant book, The Zombie in French Caribbean Fiction, @LivUniPress 2023 🎧 newbooksnetwork.com/the-zombie-in-… We discuss Haiti, trauma and memory, colonialism and all things zombie.
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Lucy Swanson, "The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023) - New...
Lucy Swanson, "The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023) - New...
We’ll be celebrating this exciting scholarship at the November NCFS conference in Baltimore! Bravo, les collègues!
📢Coming soon with @UNPjournals, NCFS 52.1-2 (Fall-Winter 2023-24)📢 Feat. @1MichaelLucey on readability, @maditweetstoo on ballet and celebrity, @SusannaNLee on Huysmans and turtles, @hannah_frydman on the erotic pre-history of social media, and much, much more…
Publication Day! I'm delighted to announce the publication of my new book Behind the Seams: Women, Fashion, and Work in 19th-C France. Available now at bloomsbury.com/us/behind-the-… Much gratitude to all who helped make it happen! @BloomsburyFashn @Vassar @NCFSassoc
📚 2023 AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD LONGLIST 📚 It's week 9, and today we're talking about Unmaking Sex by @Dr_Anne_Linton . Swipe right to find out more! Read more about the longlist: americanlibraryinparis.org/bookaward/ @CambridgeUP
Issuing a Student Concern Report because someone quoted Milton Friedman in my class. When the case is referred to the econ dept, I rip out my computer’s ethernet cable and barricade the door
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