Leon Sachs
Ph.D., Yale
history and culture of education; history and theory of republicanism; literature, film and war; World War I and French theater; 19th and 20th century French culture
Book:
The Pedagogical Imagination: The Republican Legacy in 21st Century French Literature and Film. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. [for more details, click here]
Essays & Articles:
“Reading laïcité,” French Cultural Studies 25. 3-4 (2014): 330-39.
“Stages of Battle: Theater and War in the Plays of Bernhardt, Raynal, and Anouilh,” (with Susan McCready). The French Review 87.4 (May 2014): 41-55.
“Un Nouveau roman républicain: la forme de l’histoire dans Leçon de choses,” La réception critique. Ed. Ralph William Sarkonak. Vol. 6. Séries Claude Simon. Paris: Lettres modernes, 2011.
“Literature of Ideas and Paul Bourget's Republican Pedagogy,” French Forum 33.1/2 (Winter/Spring 2008): 53-72.
“La Scientisation des humanités chez É. Durkheim: une leçon de choses humaniste,” La Mesure de savoir. Ed. Pascale Hummel and Frédéric Gabriel. Paris: Philologicum, 2007. 539-559
“Finding l'École républicaine in the damnedest of places: François Bégaudeau's Entre les murs,” Yale French Studies no. 111 (May 2007): 73-88