Elizabeth Tuttle

Elizabeth Tuttle specializes in 19th and 20th century French cultural studies with an emphasis on print culture and the history of social movements in France and its former colonial empire (particularly Indochina). She also has interests in France and the World Wars, interwar French literature, and contemporary French novels, cinema, and activism. Her first book (forthcoming, Liverpool University Press) explores the impact of print culture on the complex networks of political activists operating in interwar France and its colonies. The book follows French feminists, anti-imperialists, and anarchists as they distributed pamphlets, fliers, tracts, and posters in order to understand how the materiality of these texts shaped the movements to which they belonged. Prof. Tuttle’s research has been published by Women in French, French Culture, Politics and Society, and Contemporary French Civilization. She is the winner of the 2023 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women in Politics and the 2023 Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award. At MSU, Professor Tuttle teaches classes on French political activism, contemporary literary and filmic representations of social class, French Indochina, and interwar French literature. She received the 2025 Fintz Award for Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Humanities for her Integrative Arts and Humanities class on France and the Holocaust.

Degree: PhD, Penn State University; MA Penn State University; MA, Université Lille 3 Charles de Gaulle

Research Interests: Print culture studies, colonial history, political activism, French feminism, interwar French literature