Maximilien Novak

|Lecturer

Academic Appointments

Lecturer in French

Dartmouth Hall, Room 210

HB 6087

French and Italian

B.A. (French Literature) Université Paris IV Sorbonne
B.A. (Philosophy) Université Paris IV Sorbonne
M.A. (Comparative Literature) Université Paris IV Sorbonne
M.A. (French Literature and Musicology) Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d'Ulm), Paris
Ph.D. (History) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Ph.D. (French Literature) University of Chicago

Books

-Poésies et traductions oubliées de Félix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Honoré Champion, 2017).

-Napoléon et l'Empire des Lettres (Presses Universitaires de France, 2023).

-(edited) Power on trial : Public opinion and Political legitimacy from the Enlightenement to the Napoleonic era (Classiques Garnier, 2024).

Articles, reviews, and book chapters

-(book review) "Les sources archivistiques et historiques du Premier Empire", Pia Donato, Maria, L'archivio del mondo, Quando Napoleone confisco la storia. Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales (Cambridge University Press, Volume 74, n°4, September 2019).

-(article) "Napoléon et l'Empire de l'opinion", French Cultural Studies (SAGE, Issue 2, May 2021).

-(book chapter) "Thermomètre et variation de l'opinion publique : généalogie d'une métaphore scientifique et politique", in Power on Trial: Public opinion and Political legitimacy from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era (Classiques Garnier, 2024).

-(book review) "The sound and the fury: public opinion and propaganda under the French Empire", Ploux, François, Bruits public : Rumeurs et charisme napoléonien 1814-1823, H-net, forthcoming.

-(book chapter) "War on culture : German intellectual elites under French occupation (1806-1814)", in Winning the peace? Managing the Empire (War, Culture and Society series, edited by Rafe Blaufarb, Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann, Palgrave Macmillan, under contract).