Yann Robert
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Head French and Francophone Studies
"The First Vigilantes: Popular Justice in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France"
Contact
Building & Room:
1615 UH
Address:
601 S. Morgan St.
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About
Yann Robert is an Associate Professor in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His book, Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution, was recently published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. In 2018, he was awarded UIC’s Rising Star Award in the Humanities, Arts, Design and Architecture. His research examining the interaction between theater, justice, and politics in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, notably through a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University and a one-year research fellowship at the Newberry Library, as well as from the Jacob K. Javits and the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundations.
Major Interests:
18th-century French literature; the intersections between theater, politics and justice; the French Revolution
Books
- Dramatic Justice: Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
- Laya, Jean-Louis, L’Ami des lois, ed. Mark Darlow and Yann Robert, London: Modern Humanities Research Association, collection “Phoenix,” 2011.