📢Important resource for J.J. Rousseau aficionados and Enlightenment scholars! 📢 All 52 volumes of R.A. Leigh's magisterial edition of Rousseau's correspondence, published by Voltaire Foundation, are now online: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/collecti… Further info: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2024/02/08/the…

If in Paris, don’t miss our team and Ferrand Nathalie on Tuesday 12 March @ens_ulm!

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Jean-Marie Apostolides was a scholar of literature, theater and the avant-garde, whose interests ranged widely, from Cyrano de Bergerac and Louis XIV to Tintin and Guy Debord. It was an honor to participate in yesterday’s moving gathering held in his memory at Stanford University.

Grazie mille to Fosca D'Acierno for inviting me as a guest on her podcast to discuss the value of learning a foreign language, studying abroad, and the humanities today. Streaming now: podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/15-…

The video of our First Annual Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies, given by Glenn Roe on 2 May on the topic The Poetics of Text Reuse: Digital Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-century Archive, is now available to watch on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/50Wwy_A_Eog?si…

Thank you Sarah Sussman and Dr. Chloe Edmondson for having allowed us to get a glimpse of the fascinating Debuisson Collection of maps, photographs, books and artefacts about the history of Paris, to be exhibited next year at Stanford University Libraries!

Today CESTA we are celebrating DH research conducted by Stanford Faculty, Graduate DH Research Fellows, and Undergraduate students. I am especially proud of our 16 Undergraduate Student Researchers and their important contributions!

More celebrations for Robert Pogue Harrison on his retirement (don't worry! he'll still be around!) A few words from Yale's Pierre Saint-Amand on the occasion. "He sees the university positively as a perfected garden." bit.ly/4c5lx2D

Looking forward to welcoming Christine Angot to Stanford next week following an inspiring event at the Résidence de France in San Francisco.

Thought-provoking interview in Los Angeles Review of Books by my colleague Robert Pogue Harrison with author Kamel Daoud, 2024 recipient of the Prix Goncourt: lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-refu… Excited for the Another Look Book Club event at Stanford University on Nov. 13!

Delighted to present Nicholas Cronk of Voltaire Foundation with his festschrift L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix with Liverpool University Press All thanks to co-editor Gillian Pink Gillian Pink and Paul LeClerc

It was great to present my research with Melanie Conroy on "The Salons Project" at this workshop on eighteenth-century databases. Thank you for the invitation!

In honor of the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, a glimpse of different views of the cathedral throughout the centuries - c. 1650, c. 1850, the early 1900s, and 1960s - from the Roxane Debuisson Collection Stanford University Libraries Sarah Sussman Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris #NotreDameDeParis

Looking forward to chairing the panel “Spaces and Cultures of the Eighteenth-Century French-Speaking World” this afternoon at #MLA25

Thank you to the 2024 Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Committee for recognizing my paper, “From Letter Writing to Social Media: Mediated Self-Presentation in Eighteenth-Century France,” with 3rd Prize for the Helene W. Koon Memorial Award. wsecs.org/awards.html

How did Madame de Sévigné's letters become the model for eighteenth-century letter writers? My article, "Letters 'à la Sévigné': A Seventeenth-Century Model for the Eighteenth Century," is now available online in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture! muse.jhu.edu/article/951738

I had the honour of delivering this year’s Voltaire Foundation Digital Enlightenment Studies Lecture in Oxford. The talk is now available on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=u6Nf_p…

Honored to speak at this event about the #Enlightenment, revolutionary ideals on both sides of the Atlantic, and the legacies of #Lafayette - who incarnates the long history of friendship and exchange between France and America.

Reading Voltaire's entire correspondence (over 20,000 letters in 45 vols) has its disadvantages and rewards, says Gillian Pink (Gillian Pink). Read her blog post on one of the latter - a 1753 letter containing elements of Voltaire's Candide (1759): voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/fin…