Château of Blérancourt / Sussex Centre for American Studies Advisory Board
Americans in Paris
The Academic Advisory Board will advise and contribute to exhibitions at the Musée Franco-Américain at Blérancourt as it's comprised of thirty-three United States and European collaborators involved in a very Franco-American topic : Americans in Paris. Its members explore why Paris drew Americans across the literary, arts, business, and political spheres from the 18th century through our contemporary moment. Outputs include a poetry reading and seminar series; lectures at the University of Sussex; and open-access publications on Stanford’s Arcade website.
A number of interdisciplinary concerns bring this network together. Paris’s status as a world metropole is so well documented as to be a cliché: whether in the terms of the “capital of the nineteenth century” (Walter Benjamin) or the capital of the modern “world republic of letters” (Pascale Casanova) or, more recently, “capital of the Black Atlantic” (Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan Eburne), Paris has been understood as a center of cultural and historical dominance, as well as of imperial power. Such emphases, while important in their own right, have tended to occlude the city’s role as a medium or conduit, and the ways in which the very myth of Paris-as-global-metropole has facilitated the city’s uses for extraterritorial power. “Americans in Paris” seeks to re-theorize the spatial dynamics of global power—cultural, military, ideological, economic—through the case study of the “Americans in Paris,” tracking the unprecedented growth of an American expatriate community in Paris from the 18th century to the present, and the concomitant emergence of Franco-American institutions, corporate ventures, and counterpublics.
This group includes :
Abigail Susik, University of Willamette
Abigail Lang - University Paris Diderot
Alan Govenar - Docarts
Brooke Blower - Boston University
Bertrand Van-Ruymbeke - University Paris 8 Vincennes
Chelsea Olsen - University of Sussex
Elisa Capdevila - Versailles University
Emily Burns - Auburn University
Francois Brunet - University Paris Diderot
Francois Furstenberg - John Hopkins University
Ernest Frithiof Freeberg - University of Tennessee
Gary Van Zante - Foundation for the exhibition of photography
Helene Quanquin - University Paris 3
J. Michelle Coghlan - University of Manchester
Jennifer Boittin - Penn state University
Joanna Pawlik - University of Sussex
Doug Haynes - University of Sussex
Daniel Kane - University of Sussex
Natalia Cecire - University of Sussex
Katharina Rietzler - University of Sussex
Justine Shaw - University of Sussex
Anne-Marie AngeloUniversity of Sussex
Jonathan Eburne - Penn State University
Lauren Klein - Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of liberal arts
Carole Gragez - Musée franco-américain
Mathilde Schneider - Musée franco-américain
Minkah Malankani - University of Texas
Matthieu Chambrion - Centre Val de Loire
Nancy Green - EHESS Paris
Olivier Brossard - University Paris Est Marne la Vallée
Rachel Galvin - University of Chicago
Richard Elliott - University of Sussex
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting - Vanderbilt University
Vincent Broqua - University Paris 8
William Chew - Vesalius College
Jennifer Wilks - University of Texas
Our institutional partners include the University of Sussex, the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture at Chicago and Stanford’s Arcade website.