Chloe Summers Edmondson is an interdisciplinary and multilingual scholar who specializes in the literature and history of France. Her research is situated at the crossroads of literary criticism, cultural history, and media studies, with a focus on the early modern period.

She is currently a Lecturer at Stanford University, where she teaches French literature and history from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. At Stanford, Chloe is also the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at CESTA, the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. She brings to CESTA over a decade of experience working on projects in the Digital Humanities.

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. In addition, she works on the history of Paris, as the France-Stanford Center Fellow for the Roxane Debuisson Collection.

Chloe earned a Ph.D. in the department of French and Italian at Stanford in 2020. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in French, with Honors and Distinction, and a Master’s in Communication, both from Stanford. Chloe has spent time abroad as a visiting scholar of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford, and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. As an undergraduate, she studied abroad in Florence gaining advanced proficiency in Italian.