Congratulations to Dr. David Harrison, Professor of French at Grinnell College, who was enthusiastically elected Executive Director of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies (SE17). He will serve as Executive Director-Elect in 2025 and, at the start of 2026, will succeed Katherine Dauge-Roth, Associate Professor of Francophone Studies at Bowdoin College, who has led the Society since 2005.

An accomplished scholar of 17th-century French literature whose interests range from Saint-Simon’s Mémoires to Madame de Villedieu’s narrative fiction, David has also recently co-authored the award-winning translation and bilingual pedagogical edition of La Princesse de Clèves (Lever Press, 2022; co-authors: Hélène Bilis, Jean-Vincent Blanchard, and Hélène Visentin), for...