Professor Helen Vassallo graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1999, with a first-class Joint Honours degree in French and Hispanic Studies. She completed an MA in Literary Translation and a PhD in French, before joining the Department of Modern Languages at Exeter in 2004. She teaches a range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and supervises PhD research in each of her areas of expertise (women's writing, translation, and contemporary French/Francophone literature).

I welcome expressions of interest in research degrees in any of my areas of expertise: literary translation, translation and publishing, contemporary women's writing, and contemporary francophone writing.

I have supervised PhD theses in several areas related to my research, as follows:

Alison Marmont, ‘The Politics of Intersectional Othering in France: (Dis)Embodiment in the novels of Linda Lê and Marie NDiaye’. SWW DTP co-supervision with Dr Aude Campmas and Dr Scott Soo, University of Southampton (awarded December 2021).

Clare Horackova, 'The Francophone Literature of Central and Eastern Europe in the (Post-)Communist Era' (awarded December 2014).

Martin Baxter, ‘Questioning the Reformability of Western Civilization's Rape Culture' (awarded December 2013).

Jonathan Lewis, ‘Conflict and Remembrance in Contemporary Franco-Algerian Literature' (awarded May 2012).