Marianne Bessy

Marianne Bessy is the Lois Aileen Coggins Professor of French at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina). She received her Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 2008 and has been working at Furman ever since. Her scholarly work focuses primarily on the texts of Vassilis Alexakis and on contemporary migrant literature in French. Her first book, Vassilis Alexakis: Exorciser l’exil, was published by Rodopi in 2011. Her second book, a multi-author collection titled Racines et déracinements au grand écran: Trajectoires migratoires dans le cinéma français du XXIème siècle, co-edited with Carole Salmon, was published by Brill in 2016. Her third book, a multi-author collection titled Vassilis Alexakis: Chemins croisés, co-edited with Ioanna Chatzidimitriou, was published by the Presses universitaires de Rennes in 2023. Bessy’s scholarly articles have appeared in Alternative Francophone, Cahiers Vassilis Alexakis, Nouvelles études francophones, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies/SITES, Dalhousie French Studies, Essays in French Literature and Culture, The French Review, Foreign Language Annals or ijSOTL. She is a member of the Cahiers Vassilis Alexakis editorial board. A passionate and award-wining teacher, Bessy also presents and publishes research related to the Scholarship of Teaching of Learning.