Nichole Gleisner

Nichole Gleisner is a lecturer in the French department and managing editor of Yale French Studies. She earned her Ph.D. at Duke University where her dissertation explored the trenches of World War I as fraught sites of literary production. She has written on these lesser-known soldier-writers in France as well as Guillaume Apollinaire. Her research interests include the tensions between witnessing and aesthetics; how to write life and art; and hybrid forms of testimony, in particular, the epistolary.

Before joining Yale, she also worked at various publications, including New Haven Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Partisan Review, and Arion, and was also engaged in the practice and teaching of literary translation. She has translated the poetry of Lebanese poet Nadia Tuéni as well as the memoir of French feminist Benoîte Groult.

Nichole is currently at work translating a collection of poetry from French poet and WWI veteran Joë Bousquet as well as researching material to write the biography of this extraordinary writer.