Vanessa Weller

B370 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824

Graduate StudentRomance and Classical Studies

French and Francophone Studies
Teaching Assistant Level II (FRN 102, AY22-23)

Biography

Research Interests: 19^th and 20^th century French literature, early cinema and media studies, Modernism, translation theory, Caribbean and Maghrebi postcolonial literature, poetry as political activism

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.

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Albertine Cinémathèque French Film Festival Returns to MSU

Published October 3, 2024 in College of Arts & Letters

A collection of six film posters arranged in two rows. From left to right in the top row: "La Nuit du 12" (a woman in a red coat at night), "The Beast" (a close-up of a woman's face), and "Retour à Séoul" (a woman in a black coat in front of neon lgihts). Bottom row: "Other People's Children" (a smiling woman and man with a child), "Le Mépris" (a woman lounging in a room above the ocean), and "Banel & Adama" (a woman in a red dress laying on cracked earth).

Assistant Professors Elizabeth Tuttle and Jena Whitaker in the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University are excited to announce the return of the MSU Albertine…Read now »