Anne Brancky

Anne Brancky is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Vassar College, affiliated with the Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies Program. She joined Vassar in 2014 and holds a BA from DePaul University, followed by an MA, MPhil, and PhD in French literature from New York University.

Her research focuses on intersections of literature and crime, visual cultures, autotheory, feminist theory, and the relationship between French-language literature and popular media. She has published in journals like Modern Language Studies and The French Review, and her monograph, The Crimes of Marguerite Duras: Literature and the Media in Twentieth-Century France (Cambridge University Press), analyzes Marguerite Duras’s works through media frameworks.

Brancky teaches courses such as Intermediate French II (FFS 206) and Adventures in Autofiction and Autotheory (FFS 380). Her work bridges literary analysis with cultural studies, emphasizing feminist and queer perspectives. She is also involved in media studies, exploring how literature engages with visual and popular culture.