Stéphanie Ponsavady

Associate Professor of French

300 High Street, 210
860-685-3831

sponsavady@wesleyan.edu

MA University of Provence
MA New York University
MPHIL New York University
PHD New York University

Stéphanie Ponsavady

Stéphanie Ponsavady's research focuses on the development of transportation systems, with special attention given to roads and the automobile, in the French Colonial Empire. Her first book, Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina: A Colonial Roadshow (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) examines the history of automobility in French Indochina at the turn of the twentieth century, analyzing archival material and French and Vietnamese literature to critically assess French colonialism. Broadening her research chronologically and geographically, her current project, An Empire of Drivers, questions the congruence and interplay of France’s automobile culture and colonial history by examining the specifics of the automobile as social and cultural object. She is Editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies and an Affiliate with the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University.

Academic Affiliations

Office Hours

On sabbatical/leave

Courses

Fall 2023
FREN 111 - 02
Intermediate French I

FREN 223 - 01
French Way(s)