Elisabeth Herbst Buzay is a specialist of French medieval literature and contemporary French literature, particularly fantasy works. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on multimodal communication across time, genre, and forms of media, with an emphasis on medievalism, the intersection of text and image, visual media, and digital humanities. She also works on topics relating autobiography to authorship and how the personal and critical can be intertwined, especially in women’s writing. Herbst Buzay has published and presented on subjects including medieval and contemporary literature, medievalism, digital storytelling, videogames, and music.

Herbst Buzay’s teaching similarly focuses on communication and interdisciplinarity, with the goal of helping students communicate successfully, find connections to different cultures, topics, and time periods, and develop intercultural competence. She has taught literature, culture, media, film, and writing courses, as well as language and survey courses. In all her classes, she prioritizes teaching students to communicate clearly and effectively and to hone their critical analysis skills by making connections between their own experiences and other cultures.

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