Ian Williams Curtis joined the faculty at Kenyon College in 2020 after receiving his Ph.D. with distinction from Yale University. A cultural historian by training, his teaching and research interests include the French popular press, crime fiction and the récit d’enquête, post-World War II youth culture, and the history of psychoanalysis in France.
He has published a number of academic articles on twentieth- and twenty-first century French and Francophone literature and culture, including pieces in French Cultural Studies, Samuel Beckett Aujourd’hui / Today, and the Bulletin des Amis d’André Gide, and he is the author of the book, "The J3 Affair: Politics, Literature, and the Memory of Occupation in a Postwar French Murder Case," under contract with Liverpool UP. He is now working on a second book project tentatively titled, "Investigating America: Race, Sex, and Capitalism in Transatlantic French Detective Fiction."
Areas of Expertise
Twentieth- and twenty-first century French literature, youth culture and crime, gender and sexuality
Education
2020 — Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University
2017 — Master of Philosophy from Yale University
2015 — Master of Arts from Yale University