Cécile Alduy

Cecile Alduy is a Professor of French literature and culture in the French and Italian Department at Stanford University in California and a former fellow of the Clayman Center for Gender Research.  She is also an Associated Scholar at Sciences Po-Paris.  Dr. Alduy is a specialist of political discourse analysis, with a focus on far right and populist discourse and ideology, notably femo-nationlism, nativism, and gender discrimination. At Stanford, she teaches regularly courses on “Sex, Gender and Violence in French and Francophone Literature,” “Women in Contemporary French Cinema,” and is one of the organizers of French Speaking Worlds, Then and Now, a DLCL research group.

Prof. Alduy’s research has focused on Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour, and Emmanuel Macron’s discourses; French Presidential campaigns; the National Front’s electoral outcomes; and quantitative and qualitative surveys on secularism and democratic values in France.  Dr. Alduy is the author most recently of La Langue de Zemmour (Seuil, Feb. 2022) and Ce qu’ils disent vraiment. Les politiques pris aux mots (Seuil 2017), a comparative analysis of the discourses of the main candidates in the 2017 French presidential election.  Dr. Alduy is a Knight in the French Order of the Arts of Letters.  She is a regular writer for Le Monde, Liberation, L’Obs, Politico, Foreign Affairs, The New Yorker, among others.  Dr. Alduy contributes regularly to KQED, the BBC, EuroNews, NPR, CBS News, and all French media.