This blog does indeed have various French readers (Baptiste Coulmont being the most faithful and engaging). I don’t really know what kind of impression it makes on French readers overall, though. A few of them have been very encouraging, but I wouldn’t really expect to hear from the haters.

I’m writing a paper that’s partly about French perceptions of American universities, as a matter of fact! I can send it to you later this fall if you like (it needs some work still). Some of the texts I’m looking at are linked here. There are high-level policy exchanges like these ones with UW-Madison, and there was at least one blog that chronicled the experiences of a French exchange student (ma pom pom way of life). On a more intellectual level, there are various French books in the humanities on the American use of poststructuralist ideas (François Cusset’s French Theory is well-known, though I haven’t read it yet)… anyway, this isn’t a very complete bibliography of the topic, which is an interesting one!, but it certainly would give you a place to start if you felt curious!

This post in particular made me wonder — do you know of any French anthropologists studying US higher education? I am a US academic who has lived in France (and attended a French university), which is why I’ve been following your blog closely. I’ve begun to wonder about how a French academic would read it (although I’m sure you must have French academic readers, too), which prompted me to wonder about how US universities, in particular public universities (I teach at a land-grant institution in the midwest), would look from the outside.