Maurice Samuels
Maurice Samuels is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale University. He graduated with a BA in 1990 from Harvard University, where he also earned his MA and PhD. 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.
Work
Samuels is the author of ', ', and '. He co-edited and did translations for '. Samuels' book, , was published by Basic Books in 2020. His book, Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair, was published by Yale University Press in 2024.In 2011, Samuels became the inaugural director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, housed at Yale's Whitney Humanities Center. Through a seminar series of invited international scholars, an annual conference, and the awarding of faculty and student research grants, YPSA "promotes the study of the perception of Jews, both positive and negative, in various societies and historical moments, and also encourages comparisons with other forms of discrimination and racism."