Sonya Stephens

Sonya Stephens
13th President of the American University of Paris
Assumed office
September 1, 2022
Preceded byCeleste Schenck
18th President of Mount Holyoke College
In office
July 1, 2016 – August 31, 2022
Preceded byLynn Pasquerella
Succeeded byBeverly Daniel Tatum (interim)
Personal details
SpouseJohn Triggs
Children2
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Université de Montréal (MA)

Sonya Stephens is the current president of the American University of Paris and former president of Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony as well as the editor of A History of Women's Writing in France and Translation and the Arts in Modern France.