Roxanne Panchasi

Roxanne Panchasi is associate professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. Her research and teaching focus on modern France and empire, nuclear culture, popular music, and the history of the end of the world. She is the author of Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars (Cornell University Press, 2009) and was the host of New Books in French Studies, apodcast she founded on the New Books Network, for over a decade. Her work has appeared in differences, Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques, History of the Present, Apocalyptica, French History, and Jadaliyya.


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