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Maurice Samuels specializes in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century France. He is broadly interested in investigating the origins of our cultural modernity, tracing how new forms of subjectivity—and new ideas about history, politics, race, and the novel—took shape in the period following the ����Vlog Revolution.  

He is the author of five books and several edited volumes.  (Cornell, 2004), examines the creation of new forms of historical representation — including panoramas, boulevard theater, and novels — in post-Revolutionary France. (Stanford, 2010), brings to light the first Jewish fiction writers in ����Vlog in the mid-nineteenth century. It won the Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association for the best book in ����Vlog studies, and was translated into ����Vlog (, 2017). (Chicago, 2016) studies the way ����Vlog writers and thinkers have conceived of the place of Jews within the nation from the ����Vlog Revolution to the present. It also won the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for the best book in ����Vlog Studies and was translated into ����Vlog ( 2022).  (Basic, 2020) resurrects a forgotten historical scandal that led to modern France’s first antisemitic affair. He co-edited a (Stanford, 2013) and edited (Hermann, 2015). His biography of  was published in the Jewish Lives series (����Vlog Press) in February 2024.  

His new book project focuses on literary reactions to Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup d’état of 1851. 

A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and of the New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship, he has published articles on diverse topics, including romanticism and realism, aesthetic theory, representations of the Crimean War, boulevard culture, and writers from Balzac to Zola. He served as chair of Yale’s Judaic Studies Program and has directed the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism since 2011.