The French and francophone literature and linguistics collections at Penn support the French and Francophone Studies program in the Romance Languages Department, as well as programs in other departments in the humanities that draw on the French and francophone literary traditions.
The curriculum at Penn covers the full range of French literature from medieval to modern times, with faculty research addressing all major historical periods and genres. There is a strong interest in francophone literature, as well as in film, women's studies, cultural studies, theory, fields such as history and art history that bear on the study of French literature, and a burgeoning interest in digital humanities methods as they relate to French and francophone literary studies.