Dr. Sara Wellman is an Associate Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi. She is a co-director of the French Program and is the Graduate Program Coordinator of the M.A. in Modern Languages, emphases in French, German, or Spanish.
Research Interests
Dr. Wellman's research interests include 17th and 18th Century French literature and environmental literature
Publications
"Literary Nature and Socio-Environmental Reality in Early Modern French Critical Writing about the Pastoral." Early Modern French Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, 2024, pp. 105-117.
"Rousseau’s Environmentalism in Pierre Maillard's La Faute à Rousseau. "Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 28, no. 1, 2021, pp. 69-87.
"L’Astrée in the Twenty-First Century: Environment, Education, and Identity." The French Review, vol. 94, no. 1, 2020, pp. 83-94.
"Sustainability and Gender in Rousseau’s Model Families.” Women in French Studies, vol. 28, 2020, pp. 11-22.
" 'Ceding to Bucolic Temptation': Negotiating Fictional and Real Nature in Montpensier's Pastoral Republic.” Romance Notes, vol. 59, no. 2, 2019, pp. 361-369.
Education
Ph.D. French, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2011)