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Professor Helen Vassallo is a faculty member in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies at the University of Exeter, where she has taught undergraduate and postgraduate modules since joining in 2004 after completing her PhD.
Education:
- First-class Joint Honours in French and Hispanic Studies, University of Liverpool (1999)
- MA in Literary Translation
- PhD in French
Research Interests: Her work centers on literary translation practices, contemporary women's writing in French contexts, and Francophone literature from postcolonial perspectives. She investigates intersectional identity politics, publishing industry dynamics, and the translation of marginalized voices, with particular focus on gender representation in contemporary French and Francophone texts.
Scientific Awards: No awards were documented in the provided materials.
Advising: Professor Vassallo has successfully supervised four PhD candidates to completion, covering diverse topics including intersectional othering in Linda Lê and Marie NDiaye's works (Marmont, 2021), Central/Eastern European Francophone literature (Horackova, 2014), rape culture critique (Baxter, 2013), and Franco-Algerian memory studies (Lewis, 2012), with one project co-supervised through the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership.
