This course is taught by six instructors. It provides an overall study of the history of Anglophone studies in France and their development in French universities. The development of the Humanities has been accompanied by work in the history and epistemology of disciplines, a phenomenon that the construction of Europe and then the rise of digital technology has intensified. Those approaches, both retrospective and reflexive, have enabled the disciplines concerned to set up data collection programmes, to evaluate their scholarly heritage, to redefine their respective perimeters and to effectively legitimize their methodologies in order to achieve a greater complementarity. This course, based on a research consortium led by LERMA, started from the observation that cultures and language studies, in France as in other European countries, have largely stayed away from such developments. In particular, the history of Anglophone studies in French academia is still largely unknown. Since the 19th century, Anglophone studies have undergone a threefold process of institutionalization – chairs in “English literature” rather than comparative philology – , network building – through the creation of learned societies and journals – and professionalization – agrégation, doctoral theses, etc. –. Following this period of crystallization and then stabilization, various fields gradually separated and became autonomous from the 1960s onwards – US studies, linguistics and grammar, civilization, postcolonial studies, English for Specific Purposes, etc. –, which are themselves, today, subdivided into some thirty learned societies.