Madison Mainwaring is completing a Ph.D. in French at Yale University. Her academic research focuses on gender, performance, and the archive in 19th- and 20th-century France and North Africa. Her research has been awarded the 2018 Naomi Schor Memorial Award ,the 2020 Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship, and the 2022 Chateaubriand Fellowship of the French Embassy.
She contributes to The New York Times, The Economist, The Baffler, The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and the Paris Review Daily, among other publications. She teaches at Sciences Po and the USF/Barnard Dance in Paris program.
While at MacDowell, she worked on her first book, Her Life to Live: Anna Karina and the Women of the New Wave. It is a feminist reconsideration of the French New Wave movement and will be published in 2024 by PublicAffairs.
