VANESSA MARIE BRUTSCHE portrait
  • Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures
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Research Summary

I specialize in 20th-21st century French and Francophone literature and cinema, focusing on the politics of memory and historical violence. My current research investigates how the legacy of the concentration camp was mobilized in postwar critiques of urbanism, through theoretical and artistic works about architecture, modern life, and the everyday.

Education

  • Ph.D., French and Film & Media Studies, UC Berkeley

Awards

2021: Malcolm Bowie Prize. Awarded by the Society for French Studies for the best article by an early-career researcher in the field of French studies for: “Duras’s Aurélia Steiner and the Ethics of Cinematic Form.” French Studies 74.3 (July 2020)