Seth Armus is professor of European History at St. Joseph’s College in New York. A specialist in modern France, he has published in French historical studies and French politics, culture and society on subjects ranging from anti-Americanism, and the writer Michel Houellebecq, to Vichy intellectuals. His book French Anti-Americanism 1930-1948, Critical Moments in a Complex History (Rowman and Littlefield) was published in 2007. He is currently writing a book on Michel Houellebecq and crises in French identity.