Lisa Weiss received her Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz in December 2007. She is currently the Assistant Director of the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies at Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt Visiting Lecturer in French at Fisk University.
Her research focuses on articulations of Paris in 19th-century French texts and reconceptualizations of the city in 20th- and 21st-century Francophone North African literature and film. Her work is informed by postcolonial theory, feminist theory, immigration studies, and urban history. She has forthcoming articles in Expressions Maghrébines and French Review.
In July 2009 Dr. Weiss was an invited fellow at the National Humanities Center--Summer Institutes in Literary Studies. She
participated in the seminar on "Reading Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal" directed by Jonathan Culler.
She has delivered invited lectures on Modernity and Charles Baudelaire to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and undergraduate classes at Vanderbilt University. She has presented papers at various academic meetings, such as Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone International Colloquium, Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCFS) International Colloquium, Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, and Winthrop-King Institute for French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium.
Other positions that Dr. Weiss has held at Vanderbilt University include Co-Organizer of the 34th-Annual InternationalNCFS Colloquium and Faculty Coordinator of FLICX (Faculty-Led Interactive Cinematic Explorations)--a program through Vanderbilt Film Studies and the Office of the Dean of Students, in partnership with the Belcourt Theater, that promotes faculty-student discussions centered on foreign and independent films.
This fall 2009, she will deliver invited lectures on "The Surrealist Literary Movement in Paris" to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in tandem with their exhibit, "Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris," and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt.
