Lecturer and Head, Arts & Ideas in the Humanities; French
About
Elissa Bell Bayraktar, Ph.D. is a Lecturer IV in the Residential College. She teaches in, and currently directs, the Arts & Ideas in the Humanities program. She also teaches in the RC's Intensive French program. She did her graduate work in French literature (18th-20th centuries) at Princeton University. She has designed and taught a variety of modern literature and culture courses for the RC: some have been organized around a particular genre (poetry, modern short story) while others have covered such topics as boredom, les Éditions de Minuit, technology, and the role of art and the artist in everyday life. Her current research projects center on Samuel Beckett’s self-translations and on Francis Ponge’s Le Parti pris des choses. Her book project is on Beckett’s short prose in French.