• Ken Loiselle has been teaching at Trinity since 2008 and contributes to the curricula of history, First-Year Experience, Urban Studies and French Studies. He is also a longstanding affiliated member of the Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine (CMMC) at the Université Côte d’Azur.

    • Ph.D., Yale University
    • B.A., Middlebury College

    More information about Professor Loiselle's research and publications can be found at https://trinity.academia.edu/KennethLoiselle

    An interdisciplinary scholar of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Ken Loiselle’s research focuses on masculinity, sociability and the complex relationship between non-human and human animals from the Old Regime to the modern era. His first book, Brotherly Love (2014), explored the ideals and practices of male friendship in French Freemasonry. He is currently completing a second monograph with Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, The Masonic Experience in Enlightenment France, which investigates the ways in which men and women from various social and regional backgrounds integrated their masonic engagement into their daily lives from 1750 to the nineteenth century. He has also co-edited the volume, Diffusions et circulations des pratiques maçonniques (2013), which examined the political implications of Freemasonry in the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds from the French Revolution to the Great War.

    • French Revolution
    • French Empire (1500-1800)
    • Early Modern Europe
    • Modern Europe
    • Enlightenment
    • History of Paris
    • Science Fiction
    • Thinking about Animals in France
    • Quebec Literature, Identity and Society from the Conquest to the Quiet Revolution 

    His research has been funded by numerous organizations, including the Fulbright foundation, the NEH, and the Humanities Research Center at Rice University.