Yale French Studies is an active scholarly journal published biannually by Yale University Press. Launched in 1948, it is the oldest English-language journal in the United States devoted to French and Francophone literature and culture.

Each issue is conceived and organized by a guest editor or editors, and features original articles around a particular theme or author. Subject areas explored in recent volumes include Crime Fiction; Surrealism; Contemporary Writing for the Stage; and Memory in Postwar French and Francophone Culture. Indeed, the journal’s premier issue was devoted entirely to existentialism and included scenes from the play Les mains sales by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), along with essays by renowned literary scholars.         

The Internet Archive Collection contains microfilm published between 1948 and 2014. 

Yale French Studies is found online at: https://french.yale.edu/yale-french-studies

Jstor: https://www.jstor.org/journal/yalefrenstud

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_French_Studies

The ISSN is 0044-0078