Chloe Edmondson

Dr. Chloe Summers Edmondson specializes in the literature and history of early modern France. Her research is situated at the crossroads of literary criticism, cultural history, and media studies. She currently holds the position of Acting Assistant Professor of French in the Department of French & Italian.

At CESTA, she is the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program. She brings to CESTA over a decade of experience working on projects in the Digital Humanities. Her work in this field on the social networks of the Enlightenment has been published in the Journal of Modern History, Digital Humanities Quarterly, and in the edited volume Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool University Press, 2020). Most notably, she co-edited, with Dan Edelstein, the volume Networks of Enlightenment: Digital Approaches to the Republic of Letters (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool University Press, 2019).