Andrea Goulet is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and national Co-Chair of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS) Association.  She is the author of Optiques: the Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction (2006) and Legacies of the Rue Morgue: Space and Science in French Crime Fiction (2016).  She has also co-edited journal issues on Visual Culture‚(Contemporary French Civilization) and ‚Crime Fictions‚ (Yale French Studies), as well as a volume on the cloning science and reproductive politics of the BBC television series Orphan Black: Orphan Black:  Performance, Gender, Biopolitics (Intellect Press, 2018).  She formerly co-directed the Humanities+Urbanism+Design (H+U+D) with Franca Trubiano and has taught H+U+D courses on The Making of Modern Paris (with Eugenie Birch, School of Design) and 19th-century Paris and Philadelphia (with Aaron Wunsch, School of Design); she has published articles on Urban Mysteries and The Wire; crime fiction and car culture in France's "trente glorieuses"; violence and urban space in 19th- and 20th-c. Paris.  Her current book project is entitled Quakers in Paris: A Transnational Sect in 19th-century French Literature and Popular Culture.