Recent visitors include the following:
- Mabrouck Rachedi (French author:immigrant identities in France)
- Alain Geismar (French leader of 1968 strikes; guest in French 395: 1968 and Beyond: A Culture of Revolt)
- Michel Wieviorka (French sociologist on violence, racism and anti-Semitism in contemporary France)
- Glenn Myrent (Film critic and author, taught mini-course on "la nouvelle vague")
- Mohamed Kacimi (Algerian author, journalist: controversies of Muslim identity)
- Ken Bugul (Senegalese author: the role of women in Africa)
- Véronique Tadjo (Ivoirien poet author: African identity, Rwanda, and France)
- Lawrence Kritzman (Professor of French at Darmouth)
- Slimane Benaïssa (Algerian author)
- Philippe Manière, journalist from Le Point (French weekly magazine)
- Daniel Vernet, journalist from Le Monde (French daily newspaper)
- Didier Rousselet and Monica Neagoy, directors of Le Néon (a Washington based Franco-American theatre company)
- Fatima Gallaire, Algerian playwright.
- Euzhan Palcy (French filmmaker)
- Aurélien Recoing, French actor
- Christian Leffler, chief of staff to the European foreign minister
