Fayçal Falaky

Fayçal Falaky is the Department Chair and Associate Professor of French at Tulane University’s School of Liberal Arts. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University and specializes in 18th-century French literature, Enlightenment philosophy, and the history of ideas. His research bridges literary analysis with political and cultural contexts, focusing on themes like freedom, submission, and the interplay between religion and secularism in pre-revolutionary France.

His notable works include Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau (2014) and co-edited volumes such as Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France (2021). Falaky’s publications appear in journals like Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Journal of the History of Ideas, with recent focus areas including Barbary Kingdom documentation and the intersections of Wahhabism with Enlightenment deism.

He has been a finalist for the Society for French Historical Studies William Koren Prize (2020) for his work on pre-revolutionary church suppression. Falaky’s current projects include a co-edited volume on Diderot’s landscapes and contributions to Frameworks of Time in Rousseau (forthcoming 2022).