M. Novak
Lecturer
Appointments
Lecturer in French
Lecturer in History
Special Advisor to the Vice-Provost for Academic and International Affairs
Area of Expertise
French Language acquisition and pedagogy,
Nationalism, Press and propaganda in France and Germany (18th-19th),
French Revolution and French Empire,
Musicology and Translation studies
Education
B.A. (French Literature) Université Paris IV Sorbonne/Classes Préparatoires Lycée Henri IV
B.A. (Philosophy) Université Paris IV Sorbonne/Classes Préparatoires Lycée Henri IV
M.A. (French Literature and Musicology) Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm), Paris
M.A. (Comparative Literature) Université Paris IV Sorbonne
Ph.D. (French Literature) University of Chicago
Ph.D. (History) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Publications
Books
-Poésies et traductions oubliées de Félix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Honoré Champion, 2017).
-Napoléon et l'Empire des Lettres (Presses Universitaires de France, 2023).
-(edited) Power on trial : Public opinion and Political legitimacy from the Enlightenement to the Napoleonic era (Classiques Garnier, 2024).
Articles, reviews, and book chapters
-(book review) "Les sources archivistiques et historiques du Premier Empire", Pia Donato, Maria, L'archivio del mondo, Quando Napoleone confisco la storia. Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales (Cambridge University Press, Volume 74, n°4, September 2019).
-(article) "Napoléon et l'Empire de l'opinion", French Cultural Studies (SAGE, Issue 2, May 2021).
-(book chapter) "Thermomètre et variation de l'opinion publique : généalogie d'une métaphore scientifique et politique", in Power on Trial: Public opinion and Political legitimacy from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era (Classiques Garnier, 2024).
-(book review) "The sound and the fury: public opinion and propaganda under the French Empire", Ploux, François, Bruits public : Rumeurs et charisme napoléonien 1814-1823, H-net, 2025.
-(book chapter) "War on culture : German intellectual elites under French occupation (1806-1814)", in Winning the peace? Managing the Empire (War, Culture and Society series, edited by Rafe Blaufarb, Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
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