Tamara CHAPLIN

EMPLOYMENT and POSTS

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• 2025-present Rearch Associate, Carism/ Université de Paris, Panthéon-Assas
• 2024-present Professor of Modern European History, U of Illinois at Urbana
• Spring 2025    Visiting Professor, Carism/ Université de Paris, Panthéon-Assas, Paris
• 2008-2024      Associate Professor of Modern European History, UIUC                                    
• 2002-2008      Assistant Professor of Modern European History, UIUC                                    

EDUCATION

Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Ph.D. Modern European History, 2002

PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024). https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo238328206.html
• Devenir Lesbien: Une histoire “queer” de la France Contemporaine (Les Léonides: Paris, forthcoming Jan. 2027). (French translation of Becoming Lesbian, with a new, updated preface and introduction)
• Turning On the Mind: French Philosophers on Television (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo5302775.html

Films

• Toulouse Lesbopolis: un utopie du présent. 30 minute documentary short. Co-written and directed with Olívia Pedroso (Copyright Tamara Chaplin 2025).

Edited Volumes

• Tamara Chaplin and Jadwiga E. Pieper-Mooney, ed. And intro. The Global 1960s: Convention, Contest, and Counterculture (Oxford: Routledge Press, 2017).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• “Queering France Since the Belle Époque: Between Emancipation and Repression,” in David Andress, ed, Routledge Handbook of French History (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024): 503-513.
• “Creating ‘Lesbian’ Community: Sexuality on the French Minitel in the 1980s” in Nina Kushner and Andrew Ross, eds. Histories of French Sexuality: From the Enlightenment to the Present (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023): 318-347.
• “‘A Woman Dressed Like a Man’: Gender Trouble at the Sapphic Cabaret, Paris 1930-1960” French Historical Studies, Vol. 44, No. 4, Fall, 2021: 711-748.
• “Utopian Gaiety: French Lesbian Activism and the Politics of Pleasure (1974-2016)” in Margaret Atack, et al, Making Waves: French Feminisms and their Legacies, 1975-2015 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019): 115-128.
• Co-authored with Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, “Introduction: The Global 1960s: Convention, Contest, and Counterculture,” in Chaplin and Pieper Mooney, The Global 1960s: Convention, Contest, and Counterculture (Oxford: Routledge Press, 2018) 1-12.
• “Lesbians Online: Queer Identity and Community Formation on the French Minitel,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 23:3 (September 2014): 451-472.
• “Orgasm without Limits: May ’68 and the History of Sex Education in Modern France,” in Julian Jackson et.al., eds. May ’68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution (London: Palgrave, 2011): 376-397.
• “Philosophy on Television: Impossible Dream,” in Esteu a punt per a la televisió? Exhibition Catalogue of the special installation, Are you ready for TV?  Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona, MACBA, 2011): 98-108. (translated in Spanish, Catalan and Galician).
• ““Émile perverti? ou ‘Comment se font les enfants’. Deux siècles d’éducation sexuelle en France”, in Régis Revenin, et. al, Les jeunes & la sexualité : initiations, interdits, identités (19e-21e siècle), Paris: Éditions Autremont, 2010.
• “Embodying the Mind, Producing the Nation: Philosophy on French Television” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol 67:2 (April 2006): 315-341.
• “Une histoire brève des intellectuels à la télévision : le cas de Michel Foucault,” with Roger Chartier, Arlette Farge,, et. al., in Foucault Aujourd’hui: IXes  Rencontres INA-Sorbonne (Paris: INA/Sorbonne, 2006), 6-24, 46-47.
• “La Philosophie à la télévision: Mission Impossible?” PhiloMag Volume 1 (January 2006).
• “From Text to Image: French Philosophy and the Television Book Show, 1953-1968,” French Historical Studies, Vol. 28:4 (Fall 2005): 629-659.

Selected Book Reviews and Editorials:

• Review of Rachel Mesch, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth Century France (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). H-France Forum (Fall, 2021).
• Review of Jérôme Bourdon, Histoire de la Télévision sous De Gaulle (Paris: Presses des Mines, 2014). H-France (Spring, 2017)
• Review of Ilyana Karthas, When Ballet Became French (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015). Journal of Modern History (Fall, 2016).
• Review of Tzuchien Tho and Giuseppe Bianco, Badiou and the Philosophers: Interrogating 1960s French Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2013).  H-France (Spring 2014).
• Review of Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2012). The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 44:2, Autumn 2013 (pp.259-261).
• Letter to the Editor: “Social Studies and the FAIR ACT,” in Perspectives on History, 50:8, November 2012 (pp. 49-50).
• Review of Scott Gunther, The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942-present (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009).  H-France, Fall 2011.

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