Melissa Wittmeier

Melissa Wittmeier, lecturer in French, earned her Ph.D. in French literature from Stanford University, where she specialized in 19th century literature and popular culture. She has a strong interest in female authorship during the revolutionary period in France. Her current research project, entitled "Managing the Revolution: the Château de Villevieille," focuses on both male and female testimonials of the era as related through largely personal correspondence and other unpublished documents of the Villevieille family. This project is funded in part by a Research/Creative Grant received from Northwestern, and by a grant received from the Northwestern Alumnae Association.

A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Melissa Wittmeier holds several degrees in addition to her doctorate, including an MBA in finance from U.C. Berkeley, an MA in French from Duke University, an MA in French Studies from Stanford University, and a Diplôme Supérieur from the Sorbonne. She has also been a visiting student to Dartmouth College, L'École des Hautes Études Commerciales, and l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.

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