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Andrew Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities and Professor of French at Wesleyan University. Specializing in the history, culture, and thought of France in the 18th century, Professor Curran’s key interests are in the history of race, the history of medicine, and Enlightenment  polymath and philosopher Denis Diderot. He teaches various classes in French thought and culture from 1600 to 1900.

Andrew Curran received his Ph.D. in French literature from New York University in 1996 and taught at Union College in Schenectady, NY, two years before his working at Wesleyan. He served as the Dean of the Dean of Arts and Humanities between 2009 to 2013 and is currently a member of the Romance Languages and Literatures Department. He also served in the editorial board of Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture and is a member of the board of Critical Philosophy of Race and Diderot Studies.

Some of Professor Curran’s published works include Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot’s Universe (2001), The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Era of Enlightenment (2011), and Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (coming in 2019).