Andrew Sobanet

Andrew Sobanet is Professor of French & Francophone Studies and Advisor to the Provost for University Qatar Collaborations. He has previously held several leadership roles in the College of Arts & Sciences, including interim dean, vice dean for faculty affairs, and chair of French & Francophone Studies.

Prof. Sobanet studies the intersection of politics, literature, and culture. He is the author of Jail Sentences: Representing Prison in Twentieth-Century French Fiction (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) and Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality (Indiana University Press, 2018); he has also published widely on Vichy France. He is editor of Revisioning French Culture (Liverpool University Press, 2019) and several special journal issues. As a faculty affiliate of the Massive Data Institute, he contributed to a team analyzing political discourse in French-language social media.

Prof. Sobanet is a faculty affiliate of Georgetown University in Qatar, the Massive Data Institute, Film and Media Studies, and Global and Comparative Literature; he is also on the executive committee of the Center for Jewish Civilization. He joined the Georgetown faculty in 2002.

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