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Chloe Summers Edmondson is a Lecturer at the Department of French and Italian at Stanford University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on early modern French literature, intellectual culture, and media history. Her research spans literary criticism, cultural history, and media studies, focusing on letter-writing practices in pre-Revolutionary France and interdisciplinary digital humanities approaches.
- Ph.D. in French, Stanford University (2020)
- M.A. in Communication-Media Studies, Stanford University (2014)
- B.A. in French, with Honors and Distinction, Stanford University (2014)
Her scholarly contributions include co-editing Networks of Enlightenment (2019) and Digitizing Enlightenment (2020), which analyze digital methodologies applied to Enlightenment-era communication networks and epistolary culture. Current work explores privacy and surveillance in early modern France, alongside a project on the Palais Royal’s historical evolution.
Recent publications and projects intersect media studies, digital humanities, and socio-political history, emphasizing how historical communication practices inform modern debates about mediated social expression. She has secured major institutional support from the France-Stanford Center, The Europe Center, and EHESS’s Centre de recherches historiques.
- Voltaire Foundation Visiting Scholar (2018)
- MLA LLC 18th-Century French Forum Executive Committee (2023-2028)
- Journal of Modern History and Digital Humanities Quarterly publications
At Stanford, she designed interdisciplinary graduate seminars on letter-writing as a media revolution and taught courses in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (2020-2022) covering creative writing, anthropology, and technology’s societal impacts. Her work bridges archival research with digital methodologies to examine historical communication networks and cultural norms around privacy.
