Journals
- French ForumJournal covering literary criticism and French literature.
- French Politics, Culture & SocietyExplores modern & contemporary France from the perspectives of the social sciences, history, & cultural analysis. It also examines the relationship of France to the larger world, especially Europe, the United States, & the former French Empire.
- The French ReviewThe French Review is the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) and has the largest circulation of any scholarly journal of French and Francophone studies in the world. Since Vol. 87 (2013-14), the French Review is published four times a year (October, December, March, and May). Every year, they publish (in English and French) approximately 50 articles and over 300 reviews on French and Francophone literature, cinema, culture, linguistics, and pedagogy.
- The French ReviewThe French Review is the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of French and has the largest circulation of any scholarly journal of French studies in the world. The Review publishes articles and reviews on French and francophone literature, cinema, society and culture, linguistics, technology, and pedagogy six times a year. Every issue includes a column by Colette Dio entitled "La Vie des mots," an exploration of new developments in the French language. Jean DeCock reviews the Cannes Film Festival yearly, and Michael Bishop, William Cloonan, Martine Antle, and James P. McNab review the year's work in poetry, the novel, theater, and society.
- Yale French StudiesYale French Studies is the oldest English-language journal in the United States devoted to French and Francophone literature and culture. Each volume of essays is conceived and organized by a guest editor or editors around a particular theme or author. The journal welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and receives contributions from scholars and writers from around the world. Recent volumes have been devoted to a wide variety of subjects, among them: Lévinas; Perec; Haiti; Belgium; Crime Fiction; Surrealism; Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance France; French Education; and Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema.
Databases
- ARTFL This link opens in a new window
ARTFL provides access to North America's largest collection of digitized French resources.It consists of nearly 3,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy - ClasePeriodica This link opens in a new window
CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Scholarly journals published in Spanish, Portuguese, French and English. - MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains millions of citations from journals & series, as well as book publishers. Subjects within the MLA International Bibliography consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. - Oxford Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new window
The Oxford Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference eBooks published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions series. Find a wealth of timelines, facts, figures, definitions, and translations from one of the world's most trusted reference publishers, including more than 50,000 additional in-depth, scholarly articles from titles in the Oxford Companions series.
