Malaurie Pilatte

Malaurie Pilatte is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Writing Program for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Education

• PhD in History, Johns Hopkins University
• Agrégation d'anglais
• École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France

Research Interests

Her scholarship centers on 19th and 20th century U.S. history, with concentrated expertise in African American women's intellectual history, gender studies, and transnational connections between Black American communities and France during the Jim Crow era. Her dissertation Amour Noir: France, Love, and the Making of the Modern Black American Woman, 1884-1925 analyzes how Black women intellectuals leveraged French cultural associations to advance racial and gender equality.

Background

Born and raised in France, Pilatte contributes a distinct transnational perspective to her historical analyses, with one publication featured on Black Perspectives (African American Intellectual History Society blog).