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'''Sonya Stephens''' is the currentformer president of [[Mount Holyoke College]] and the author of ''Baudelaire’sBaudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony'' as well as the editor of ''A History of Women’sWomen's Writing in France'' and ''Translation and the Arts in Modern France''.<ref name="MHC">{{Cite web|url=http://president.mtholyoke.edu/biography|title=Biography|last=College|first=Mount Holyoke|website=president.mtholyoke.edu|access-date=2018-05-24}}</ref>

Stephens studied at New Hall, a college for women at the [[University of Cambridge]] that is now known as [[Murray Edwards College]], where she received her B.A. in modern and medieval languages. She holds a master’smaster's degree in French studies from the [[Université de Montréal]] and a doctorate in French from the University of Cambridge.<ref name="MHC" />

She was chair of the Department of French at [[Royal Holloway, University of London]] and later chaired the Department of French and Italian and served as the first vice provost for undergraduate education at [[Indiana University Bloomington]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.gazettenet.com/mount-holyoke-college-names-permanent-president-17050549|title=Mount Holyoke College makes interim president Sonya Stephens its permanent leader|last=Christensen|first=Dusty|date=2018-04-24|work=Daily Hampshire Gazette|access-date=2018-05-24}}</ref> She joined Mount Holyoke College in 2013 as dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs.<ref name="Feldman 2018">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/23/sonya-stephens-named-president-mount-holyoke-college/Vz4vHpM0Gj9SmpSManwi0I/story.html|title=Sonya Stephens named president of Mount Holyoke College|last=Feldman|first=Abigail|date=2018-04-23|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=2018-05-24}}</ref> She became acting president in July 2016, following the resignation of [[Lynn Pasquerella]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/01/mount_holyoke_college_presiden_2.html|title=Mount Holyoke College president Lynn Pasquerella to step down; Dean of Faculty Sonya Stephens named interim president|last=Johnson|first=Patrick|date=2016-01-04|work=masslive.com|access-date=2018-05-24}}</ref> Stephens was officially named president on April 23, 2018.<ref name="Feldman 2018" /> On March 2, 2022, Stephens announced she will be resigning in August 2022 to lead the [[American University of Paris]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-02 |title=Sonya Stephens leaving Mount Holyoke College presidency for Paris job |url=https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/03/sonya-stephens-will-leave-mount-holyoke-college-presidency-for-paris-job.html |first1=Ron |last1=Chimelis |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=masslive |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409204613/https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/03/sonya-stephens-will-leave-mount-holyoke-college-presidency-for-paris-job.html |archive-date= 2022-04-09}}</ref> [[Beverly Daniel Tatum]] succeeded her as interim president, beginning in July 2022. <ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-30 |title=Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum appointed interim president |url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/news/news-stories/dr-beverly-daniel-tatum-appointed-interim-president |access-date=2022-10-28 |website=Mount Holyoke |language=en}}</ref>

* {{Cite book|title=Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony|last=Stephens|first=Sonya|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1999|isbn=978-0198158776|location=|pages=}}

* {{Cite book|title=History of Women's Writing in France|last=|first=|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2009|isbn=9780511554025|editor-last=Stephens|editor-first=Sonya|location=|pages=}}

* {{Cite book|title=Translation and the Arts in Modern France|last=|first=|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2017|isbn=9780253026149|editor-last=Stephens|editor-first=Sonya|location=|pages=}}

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