Andrea Goulet

Andrea Goulet serves as Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Graduate Chair of the Francophone, Italian and Germanic Studies (FIGS) department at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts & Sciences. Previously department Chair (2022-2025), she co-directs Penn's Humanities+Urbanism+Design initiative and has held leadership in the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association for a decade.

Her research centers on 19th-21st century French fiction through lenses of science-literature intersections, spatial theory, and urbanism. She examines anthropocene narratives, crime fiction's evolution from Poe to contemporary noir, and visual studies within modernist and postmodern contexts. Current work explores representations of Quaker communities in 19th-century French popular culture.

Recent publications (2021-2025) demonstrate sustained focus on Parisian subterranean spaces, Balzac's ecological relevance, and transnational crime fiction. Her scholarship consistently bridges literary analysis with urban geography and scientific discourse, particularly in anthropocene studies and spatial theory.

No scientific awards were documented in source materials.

As Graduate Chair, Goulet oversees FIGS graduate programs and has mentored numerous students through courses like Crime and the City in 19th-century French Literature and Espaces Littéraires. Her decade-long co-chairmanship of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association reflects institutional commitment, while co-directing the Humanities+Urbanism+Design initiative fosters cross-disciplinary urban research collaborations.

She co-directs Penn's Humanities+Urbanism+Design (H+UD) initiative, creating frameworks for interdisciplinary exploration of urban environments through humanistic and design perspectives. This platform facilitates research on spatial narratives, cityscapes, and cultural representations of urban transformation.