Dr. Chloe Summers Edmondson specializes in the literature and history of ancien régime France. Her research is situated at the crossroads of literary criticism, cultural history, and media studies.

Her primary research contributions to date center on the media culture of the ancien régime, letter-writing practices and the epistolary novel, and the social networks of the Enlightenment.

She also works on the history of Paris, as the France-Stanford Center Fellow for the Roxane Debuisson Collection.