Zachary Desjardins-Mooney
Visiting Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
Zachary Desjardins-Mooney received his Ph.D. in French, with a Certificate in Comparative Literature, from Columbia University in 2025. He specializes in twentieth-century French intellectual history and literature, with interdisciplinary interests in cinema, education, medical humanities, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Before joining Hamilton, Desjardins-Mooney taught at Columbia University and Vassar College.
Recent Courses Taught
Elementary French
Education in Literature
Research Interests
Modern French intellectual history, 20th century French literature, health humanities, history of psychoanalysis and philosophy, critical theory, cinema and psychiatry
Distinctions
- GSAS Teaching Scholars Program, Columbia University (2024–2025)
- Medical Humanities Graduate Fellowship, Columbia University (2024)
- Fellow in Academic Administration, Columbia University (2023–2025)
- SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada (2019–2023)
Selected Publications
- "Richard Bates, Psychoanalysis and the family in twentieth-century France. Françoise Dolto and her legacy." Psychoanalysis and History. Forthcoming.
Appointed to the Faculty
2026Educational Background
Ph.D., Columbia University
M.A., McGill University
B.A., Concordia University
