Bruno Perreau (PhD, Paris I Sorbonne; born December 15, 1976) is the Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He was also a Burkhardt Fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a visiting scholar in the department of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

[4] In France, the process for authorizing an adoption is understood as a “moment of truth” over the course of which administrative categories and social identities enter into a confrontation.

Gender is a crucial aspect of this encounter, and the decision to accept or reject an application (by a single man, a woman past menopause, a homosexual person, a married couple, etc.)

It sheds new light on recent events around gay marriage in France, where opponents to the 2013 law saw queer theory as a threat to French family.

By examining mutual influences across the Atlantic, he seeks to reflect on changes in the idea of national identity in France and the United States, offering insight on recent attempts to theorize the notion of “community” in the wake of Maurice Blanchot's work.

Minorities, who experience both exclusion and conditional assimilation (or 'passing'), challenge the clarity of the majority's relationship to the law, especially in the area of political representation.