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Flavien Falantin

Title

Assistant Professor of French

Department

French and Italian

Information

Address

4652 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Office Hours

MTW 11AM-12AM and by appointment

Current Courses

Title Course Number(s) Section(s)
French III FR127,    FR127 B,    A
Advanced Grammar and Composition FR231 A
Provocative Texts: Fake News, Secrets, and Controversies FR258 A
French III: Immersion in Martinique FR127J_B JP

Profile

Flavien Falantin received his Ph.D. in French & Francophone Studies from Indiana University at Bloomington. In 2025, he received the SEP Gold Medal of Progress in recognition of his research on 20th- and 21st-century French literature, medical humanities, and women studies. He is the author of Faut-il brûler Sagan? (2023), and his work has been featured on France Culture’s Salle des Archives and Le Cours de l’Histoire. At Colby, Dr. Falantin directs the JanPlan in Martinique immersion program, serves as the founding moderator of the Pi Delta Phi (French Honor Society chapter), and is Review Editor for the French Review. In October 2026, he will organize and host the International Colloquium Marguerite Yourcenar at Colby College.

Publications

 

BOOKS:

  • (2024) Bonjour tristesse 1954-2024. Paris: Classiques Garnier 400 pages (co-edited volume with Céline Hromadova).
    • Review: French Studies 79.4, 2025: 739-740.
  • (2023) Faut-il brûler Sagan? Paris: Classiques Garnier, 472 pages.
    • Recognized in top 5 best-sellers for publisher Classiques Garnier.
    • Reviews: The French Review 98.1, 2024: 181; Studi Francesi 201, 2023: 727.

 

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS:

  • (2026) Falantin, F. “When Fiction Prescribes: Institutionalizing Climate Grief in Hirsch’s Les Solastalgiques.” French Studies and the Medical Humanities: Critical Intersections (Liverpool University Press). Forthcoming.
  • (2026) Falantin, F., and Firkusny, A. “Le syndrome de Mishima. Psychologie du corps martyrial dans l’oeuvre d’Amélie Nothomb.” The French Review (Johns Hopkins University Press), vol. 99.3, pp. 71-87.
    • Alexa Firkusny ’25 was a Colby student at the time of submission.
  • (2025) Falantin, F. “A Textually Transmissible Disease? Bovarysme: The Political History of a Literary Pathology.” Special issue: “Literature and Mental Illness” Anales de Filología (Murcia University Press), vol. 33, pp. 198-215.
  • (2025) Falantin, F. “Violence et sacré des Spirituals. Retour sur une geste philosophique.” Bulletin de la Société International d’Études Yourcenariennes (Presses de l’université Clermont-Auvergne), no 45, pp. 203-218.
  • (2025) Falantin, F. “Scandaleuse ou bourgeoise? Françoise Sagan et l’argent.” Essays in French Literature and Culture (University of Western Australia Press), no 62, pp. 89-106.
  • (2025) Falantin, F. “Esthétique de l’effondrement ou injonction au bonheur? La littérature francophone à l’aune de la psychologie positive.” The Nordic Journal of Francophone Studies (Stockholm University Press), ed. by Sara Bédard-Goulet & Christophe Premat, vol. 8.1, pp. 59-69.
  • (2024) Falantin, F., and Hromadova, C. “La vérité sur l’affaire Pamela Moore.” Bonjour tristesse 1954-2024 (Paris: Classiques Garnier), ed. by Flavien Falantin & Céline Hromadova, pp. 115-136.
  • (2024) Falantin, F. “L’envers du décor: de l’adaptation cinématographique de Preminger à la Nouvelle Vague.” Bonjour tristesse 1954-2024 (Paris: Classiques Garnier), ed. by Flavien Falantin & Céline Hromadova, pp. 65-83.
  • (2024) Falantin, F., and Hromadova, C. “Naissance d’un roman culte.” Bonjour tristesse 1954-2024 (Paris: Classiques Garnier), ed. by Flavien Falantin & Céline Hromadova, pp. 9-16.
  • (2024) Falantin, F. “Progress and Prejudice: Rethinking Françoise Sagan’s Legacy.” CFC Intersections (Liverpool University Press), ed. by Étienne Achille & Oana Panaïté, vol. 3, pp. 29-44.
  • (2024) Falantin, F. “Psychanalyse de l’exil ou les défis de la fiction dans l’œuvre de Chahdortt Djavann.” Revue française de Fixxion contemporaine (Ghent University Press), ed. by Alison James & Alison Rice, vol. 28, pp. 1-12.
  • (2024) Falantin, F. “Quichottisme et méthodes chez Descartes et Sorel.” The Romanic Review (Duke University Press), vol. 115.1, pp. 155-170.
  • (2024) Falantin, F. “Aux origines du monstre: Mauriac lecteur de Sagan.” Revue François Mauriac (Paris: Honoré Champion), ed. by Caroline Casseville & Jean-Claude Ragot, n° 1, pp. 99-110.
  • (2023) Falantin, F. “Marguerite Duras et Françoise Sagan, histoire d’une rivalité littéraire.” Cahiers Marguerite Duras (Presses Universitaires de Lille), n° 3, pp. 295-320.
  • (2023) Falantin, F. “‘Avant Beauvoir, elle a participé à ma construction’: Annie Ernaux lectrice de Sagan.” Histoires Littéraires, vol. XXIV, n° 95, pp. 103-115.
  • (2023) Falantin, F. “Solastalgie et destruction du vivant dans Climax de Thomas B. Reverdy.” Alkemie. Revue semestrielle de littérature et philosophie (Paris: Classiques Garnier), vol. 31, pp. 133-150.
  • (2020) Falantin, F. “Faut-il brûler Sagan?” Simone de Beauvoir Studies (Leiden: Brill Publisher), vol. 30.2, pp. 275-295.
  • (2018) Falantin, F. “Frantz Fanon ou l’insoutenable irréalité de l’être. Analyse littéraire et lectorielle de la lactification.” Acta Iassyensia Comparationis, vol. 24.2, pp. 83-92.
  • (2018) Falantin, F. “De Marcel à Françoise et de Proust à Sagan. Réflexions sur une signature proustienne et son empreinte littéraire.” Le Pardaillan (Éditions du Centre International Michel Zévaco), vol. 4, pp. 47-58.
  • (2017) Falantin, F. “Généalogie du bovarysme. Retour sur le pouvoir de se concevoir autre.” Alkemie. Revue semestrielle de littérature et philosophie (Paris: Classiques Garnier), vol. 20, pp. 265-276.
  • (2017) Dobrenn, A., and Falantin, F. “Désir et réalité dans Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert et Nini mulâtresse du Sénégal d’Abdoulaye Sadji.” Entre-Textes: Dialogues littéraires et culturels (London: Routledge), ed. by Vera Klekovkina & Oana Panaïté, pp. 218-237.
  • (2016) Falantin, F. “Gustave Flaubert et Abdoulaye Sadji. Dialectique d’une bêtise plaquée sur du vivant.” Reading Communities: A Dialogical Approach to French and Francophone Literature (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), ed. by Oana Panaïté, pp. 103-124.
  • (2016) Falantin, F. “Du poison au palfium 875. Françoise Sagan ou le roman sous influence.” The French Review (Johns Hopkins University Press), vol. 90.2, pp. 24-35.
  • (2015) Falantin, F. “De Raisel à Tourvel. Madame Riccoboni et les futures Liaisons dangereuses de Laclos.” Revue italienne d’études françaises, vol. 5, pp. 1-15.

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