Benjamin Hoffmann

Benjamin Hoffmann is a French-American creative writer and professor of French & Francophone Literature at Ohio State University, specializing in eighteenth-century French literature and transatlantic studies. Born in 1985 in Villeurbanne and raised in Bordeaux, he holds degrees from the Sorbonne, Yale University, and Université Bordeaux III, and became a U.S. citizen in 2023. He has authored nine books including novels and essays published in France and the United States, such as Père et fils, American Pandemonium, and Les Minuscules.