Jane M. Battisson

Jane M. Battisson is a Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Case Western Reserve University, where she is based in Guilford House 204. Her interdisciplinary scholarship bridges Environmental Humanities, contemporary French literature, and psychoanalytic theory.

• PhD in French with certificates in Comparative Literature and Psychoanalytic Studies from Emory University

Her research focuses on humanity’s relationship to language and the natural world, examining how these inform conceptions of self, others, and the non-human across 19^th-21^st century French and Francophone literatures. Key subfields include ecocriticism, ontology, and critical theory.