France Lemoine

France Lemoine is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Scripps College. Her academic background includes an M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on French literature and cultural/intellectual history from the French Revolution to the First World War, emphasizing novels as spaces of social critique, symbolic power through language, women's roles in salons, and representations of the guillotine in 19th-century literature.

Current projects include analyzing legal and literary discourses around the guillotine, adapting Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu into a graphic novel, studying 19th-century French salon media, and examining the spectacle of death during the Terror. Courses taught span foundational French language instruction to specialized topics like Hugo, Women and the French Revolution and French Frogs and Quebec Ouaouarons, exploring identity and cultural narratives.

Dr. Lemoine’s work bridges literary analysis with historical context, particularly highlighting marginalized voices and the intersection of law and culture.