Elissa Bell Bayraktar

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 enjoys teaching in the RC's French program and getting to know all of the Intensive I students. Her 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.

Elissa has designed and taught a variety of modern literature and visual culture courses for both RC French and Arts & Ideas: some have been organized around a particular genre (poetry, short story, short film) while others have inquired into boredom, communications technology, les Éditions de Minuit, and the role of art and the artist in everyday life.