
Chloe Summers Edmondson
Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Stanford Introductory Studies - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Bio
Chloe Summers Edmondson is a Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (previously Thinking Matters). She received her PhD from Stanford in the French & Italian Department in 2020. Her research is situated at the crossroads of literary criticism, cultural history, and media studies. She specializes in 17th and 18th-century France, with a particular focus on letter-writing practices. She has also worked extensively in the field of Digital Humanities. Chloe was co-project lead on the "Salons Project" with Melanie Conroy, a project under the umbrella of "Mapping the Republic of Letters." She completed the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities offered through CESTA, the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Her work has appeared in The Journal of Modern History, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and in the series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Most recently she co-edited a volume with Dan Edelstein, entitled Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters, with Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. She holds a BA with Honors in French and a MA in Communication, also from Stanford.
Courses taught include: "Stories Everywhere," "Design that Understands Us," and "Reading the Body."
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Stanford Introductory Studies - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
Professional Education
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Ph.D., Stanford University, French (2020)
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M.A., Stanford University, Communication - Media Studies (2014)
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B.A., Stanford University, French, with Honors, with Distinction (2014)
2021-22 Courses
- Design that Understands Us
THINK 66 (Win) - French Kiss: The History of Love and the French Novel
FRENCH 159 (Win) - Reading the Body: How Medicine and Culture Define the Self
THINK 48 (Spr) -
Prior Year Courses
2020-21 Courses
- Design that Understands Us
THINK 66 (Win) - Reading the Body: How Medicine and Culture Define the Self
THINK 48 (Spr) - Stories Everywhere
THINK 49 (Aut)
2019-20 Courses
- Design that Understands Us
All Publications
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The French Enlightenment Network
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
2016; 88 (3): 495-534
View details for DOI 10.1086/687927
View details for Web of Science ID 000383012300001