Florence Vatan
Credentials: Professor and Chair of the Department of French and Italian & Director of the Center for German and European Studies 2025-2026
Position title: Department of French and Italian
Email: fvatan@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.262.4075

Florence Vatan is Professor in the Department of French and Italian and Affiliate of the German Section of German, Nordic, and Slavic. She specializes in nineteenth-century poetry and fiction; literature and science (psychology, medicine); literature and philosophy; twentieth-century German and Austrian literature; and European intellectual and cultural history. She writes and publishes in English, German and French, and received her doctorate in Germanistik at the University of Paris III (Sorbonne) and her doctorate in French at the University of Chicago.