Meaghan Emery, Associate Professor of French at the University of Vermont, specializes in 20th- and 21st- century French and Francophone literature, cinema, and culture. Her most recent research, and the subject of a monograph, focuses on the influence of French existentialism and specifically Simone de Beauvoir’s essay The Second Sex (1949) on young women intellectuals who grew up in the colonies but studied and made their careers in France. Emery’s first book, The Algerian War Retold, soon to appear in French translation, addresses the legacy of Albert Camus and the philosophical paradigms of resistance and revolution used by contemporary authors, and filmmakers when speaking about the still controversial and hitherto state-censored events of the Algerian War. Her past works, analyses of literature written under the German occupation and of the political history of the French Republic and specifically state initiatives to facilitate the integration of non-Western and primarily Muslim immigrants into French society, have been published in French Historical Studies, French Cultural Studies, and Contemporary French Civilization.