Katharine Hargrave is Director of the Foreign Language Tutoring Lab and Instructor of French at the College of Charleston. She received her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 2020. Her research focuses on the intersections between music and society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France and the French diaspora. Her current book project, Lyric Tragedy and Libretto Print Culture in Early Modern France, argues for the study of operas as literary texts used by the French to serve both political and colonial goals. Through the lens of material culture, she examines how the published format of lyric tragedies had a negative impact on public reception, subsequently diminishing recognition of the genre’s potential to influence contemporary society.

Elizabeth Tuttle is Assistant Professor of French at Michigan State University. She received her PhD from the Pennsylvania State University in 2019. Her current book project focuses on political activism in 1920s and 30s France. She examines how print culture shaped both feminist and anti-imperialist movements in metropolitan France and throughout the empire. In case studies on Paris, French West Africa, Indochina, and French Guiana her work looks at how women and men used political ephemera to create coalitions and contest their marginalization.

Professor Andrew Jones is Assistant Professor of French at Ursinus College. He received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 2019. His interdisciplinary teaching and research bridge twentieth and twenty-first century French and Francophone Studies, Film Studies, Philosophy, and History. Specializing in the cinemas and literatures of postwar France, Francophone Africa, and Francophone Eastern Europe, he has a particular interest in representations of trauma. His current project explores the notion of testimony through the lens of cinematic storytelling in the wake of extreme human catastrophes including the Holocaust, Colonialism, and the Gulag.