Program: Ph.D. – French and Francophone Studies
Position: Teaching Assistant Level II (FRN 102, AY22-23)
Research Interests: 19th and 20th century French literature, early cinema and media studies, Modernism, translation theory, Caribbean and Maghrebi postcolonial literature, poetry as political activism
Campus Address: Wells. Hall
Email: wellerva@msu.edu
Vanessa Weller is a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in French and Francophone Studies in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. She holds a B.A. in German Literature and French and Francophone Studies from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, and an M.A. in Cultural Translation from the American University in Paris.
Vanessa has previously received research and teaching grants, including a Fulbright grant to Austria, where she studied the early life of filmmaker Fritz Lang and his Austro-Hungarian influences; and a teaching assistantship with TAPIF (Teaching Assistant Program in France). Vanessa has experience teaching English and German as a second language at all learning levels.
Her paper “Bird of Prosody: Poe’s The Raven and Baudelaire’s Le Corbeau” was published in the Norwich Papers (University of East Anglia, UK) in 2014.