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The Writer as Memory Activist

Antonia Wimbush explores how cultural works preserve the overlooked memories of Caribbean migration to France through the BUMIDOM program and challenge France’s national narrative.

July 2, 2025
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Napoleon holds a crown and stands above a kneeling Josephine in Notre Dame Cathedral. They are surrounded by a large crowd of people and all are dressed similarly in bright colors.

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: From Uniformed Soldier to Costumed Emperor

by Brontë Hebdon Early in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (2023), Bonaparte and Josephine de Beauharnais see each other for the first time. Their eyes meet across the room at one of the infamous post-terror bals des victims, and both are immediately…

Edinburgh University Press
December 6, 2023

The Writer as Memory Activist

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon: From Uniformed Soldier to Costumed Emperor

The Writer as Memory Activist

Translating Bréhier: How did The Theory of Incorporeals in Ancient Stoicism come to be?

Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms

Q&A with Daniel Behar, author of Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity

Trans media’s expanding horizons