Andrea Goulet is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and 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). At Penn, she currently co-directs the interdisciplinary Humanities+Urbanism+Design program.