Since the redesign of the site, and well before, several people have worked behind the scenes to provide Earlymodernfrance.org with the information you receive in the bi-weekly newsletter: new publications, calls for papers, conferences, job announcements, spotlights, and much more. This spotlight is an opportunity to introduce the members of the editorial team who have agreed to appear here. We would like to thank the entire team, including those who preferred not to be presented in this spotlight: there would be no EarlyModernFrance.org without them.
Theresa Banks (Harvard University; Cambridge, MA, United States): 
Members New Brief Editor
Before coming to Harvard, I completed a B.A. in French and English at Cornell University. Now a Ph.D. candidate in the French section of Harvard’s Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, my research interests include representations of violence, and particularly crusade, in medieval and early modern French literature.
My first (virtual) SE17 was in 2020 and I was taken in by the community’s welcome and generosity. I knew I wanted to become more involved, so I was thrilled to join the Executive Committee as a Member-at-Large in 2021. I am now excited to serve as editor of the MNB.
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Céline Bohnert (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes ; Institut Universitaire de France): éditrice en chef pour la rubrique 'New Publications’
Mes recherches portent sur la réception de la mythologie en France aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Je m’intéresse aux dynamiques à l’œuvre dans l’élaboration d’un rapport sans cesse renouvelée à la culture antique dans la littérature, la mythographie, l’histoire du livre et l’opéra.
Je me souviens avec émotion que ma première participation à un colloque hors de France était à Columbia, North Carolina (NASSCFL 2005). Par la suite, j’ai eu l’honneur d’être nommée ‘member at large of the executive comittee’ de la NASSCFL. Marquée par la dynamique généreuse de la NASSCFL et de SE17, je me suis naturellement engagée en 2014 dans l’équipe du site devenu Early Modern France.org.
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Katie LaPorta (NYU; New York, NY), Co-editor of Early Modern France Website
Katie is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of French Literature, Thought & Culture at NYU. A literary historian by training, her research interests reside primarily in the intersection of politics and literature in early modern France, and in the intersections between the early modern period and contemporary critical theory.
My undergraduate advisor, Allison Stedman, put SE17 and NASSCFL on my radar. I participated in NASSCFL as an attendee when it was hosted at NYU in 2009. I gave a paper at SE17 in 2012 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, when I was a doctoral student. I was thrilled to discover such a dynamic, inviting community of early modernists.
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Justine Le Floc’h (Kyoto University; Kyoto, Japan), Spotlight Editor
I am an associate professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at Kyoto University. My research focuses on the history of emotions, which I investigate from the 17th-century French moral literature and scholarly treatises.
I first discovered SE17 in 2020, through the antiracist and inclusive teaching project initiated by Ashley Willard. It has been a very instructive experience of collective research. At that time, I was a postdoctoral fellow in Montréal (UQÀM), and now that I have moved to Asia, Early Modern France is a great way to keep contact with colleagues studying 17th-century French literature around the world.
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Mathilde Mougin (Aix Marseille University, PhD Student, Aix-en-Provence, France), Editor of the Scholarship section.
I teach at the University of Aix Marseille and I am preparing a PhD about the question of anthropology in the travel literature of the 16th and 17th centuries.
I discovered SE17/NAASCFL in 2018 during the 48th congress of the NASSCFL Society held in Lecce, which I attended and which I keep a wonderful memory. I have since participated in other events and closely follow the activities of both societies. I am happy to be part of the editorial team of the website and to do something for the SE17.
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Christophe Schuwey (Université Bretagne Sud; Lorient, France), Co-editor of Early Modern France Website
SE17 in Long Beach (2014) has been my first conference — ever! Since then, I have experienced the essential role of such a society: colleagues who became friends shaped my work, my vision of the field, and taught me how important mutual support and collaborative work are. Editing Earlymodernfrance.org is an honor, and I am deeply grateful for such opportunity to do something for SE17 and NASSCFL.
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Esther Van Dyke (Affiliate Faculty in French; Loyola University Maryland), Job postings
My work focuses on early-modern French theater and its intersection with early modern aesthetics, religious thought, and gender studies. Specifically, I examine how Racine created a theatrical sublime in various ways that both differed and informed the rhetorical sublime ascribed to Boileau in his translations of Longinus.
I first attended NASSCFL when it met in Lecce, Italy in 2018. I greatly enjoyed presenting and engaging with other scholars and experts. Since then I have had the opportunity to attend other SE17/NAASCFL gatherings and have always found great community.
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