Maurice Samuels

Maurice Samuels (born August 9, 1968) is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale University. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA (summa cum laude) in 1990, where he also earned his MA (1995) and PhD (2000). He taught at the University of Pennsylvania until he moved to Yale in 2006. He specializes in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century France and in Jewish Studies, and is the author of books and articles on these and other topics. He is the inaugural director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.

Work

Samuels wrote The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (2004) and Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France (2010). He co-edited and did translations for Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature Reader (2013). His new book, The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews will be published in 2016 by the University of Chicago Press.

In 2011, Samuels became the inaugural director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism (YPSA), housed at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center. Through a seminar series of invited international scholars, an annual conference, and the awarding of faculty and student research grants, YPSA "promotes the study of the perception of Jews, both positive and negative, in various societies and historical moments, and also encourages comparisons with other forms of discrimination and racism."[1]

Awards

Spectacular Realities won the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, awarded by Yale University's MacMillan Center.[2] Inventing the Israelite received the 2009 Scaglione Prize, given by Modern Language Association.[3] In 2015, Samuels was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[4]

Teaching

Samuels teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on a variety of topics. Recent courses include "Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century"; "Money and the Novel"; "Jewish Identity and French Culture"; "Realism and Naturalism"; "Fin-de-siècle France"; and "Representing the Holocaust." With Alice Kaplan, he teaches a popular undergraduate survey course, The Modern French Novel.

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome | Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism". Ypsa.yale.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
  2. ↑ "Maurice Samuels Awarded Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by The MacMillan Center | The MacMillan Center". Macmillan.yale.edu. 2007-05-16. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
  3. ↑ "Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies Winners | Modern Language Association". Mla.org. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
  4. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Maurice Samuels". Gf.org. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2016-04-01.

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