Maurice Samuels (born August 9, 1968) is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale University. He graduated with a BA (summa cum laude) in 1990 from Harvard University, where he also earned his MA (1995) and PhD (2000). Before moving to Yale in 2006, Samuels taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century France and in Jewish Studies and is the author of books and articles on these and other topics. He is the inaugural director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.
Books in order of publication (In English and French):
The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France – 2004
Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France – 2009
Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literature: A Reader – 2013
Les grands auteurs juifs de la littérature française du XIXe siècle – 2015
The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews – 2016
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon Monarchy and Made France Modern – 2020
Le droit à la différence – 2022
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair – 2024
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