Anne Riippa (PhD) is a university lecturer in French Studies at the University of Turku. Since 2007, she has taught a wide range of courses in French language and literature at the University of Helsinki. She worked in the French section of the Department of Languages from 2007 to 2020 and at the University Language Centre from 2018 to 2022. From 2022 to 2025, she also taught in the Master’s Programme in Translation and Interpreting. Her teaching has covered French literature, stylistics, translation, and literary theory, as well as courses in French as a foreign language, French grammar, the Master’s seminar on literary translation, and a course on translating legal texts. She received the Magister Bonus award from the Student Union of the University of Helsinki (HYY) in 2019 for excellence in teaching. She is also a trained legal interpreter in French.

Anne Riippa’s research is situated at the intersection of contemporary French literary studies and French as a foreign language (FFL) pedagogy. It builds on her doctoral dissertation (2013), completed at both the University of Helsinki and Sorbonne Nouvelle University, which examined biblical intertextuality in the works of Albert Camus, André Gide and Paul Claudel. Since then, her work has developed in two main directions. On the one hand, she studies 20th- and 21st-century French literature, focusing on authors such as Camus and Leïla Slimani, and on themes including narrative empathy, the ethics of care, and intertextuality. On the other hand, she conducts applied research in FFL pedagogy, examining how literary reading can foster empathy, intercultural awareness, and linguistic development. These studies combine literary analysis, didactics, phonetics, and cultural literacy.

Her publications, visible in the University of Helsinki’s Tuhat database as of August 2025, include articles in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings (Journal of French Language Studies, Contextes et Didactiques, Fabula Colloques), as well as chapters in edited scholarly volumes. Recent collaborative work with colleagues in literary studies and language pedagogy has explored innovative approaches to integrating literature into FFL education.

She participates in international research networks, including the Société d’Étude de la Littérature Française des XX ^e et XXI ^e siècles. Her current projects continue to combine literary studies and applied pedagogy, with a focus on the societal role of literature in fostering empathy and intercultural understanding. She will qualify for the title of docent (associate professor) in September 2025.

She has extensive teaching experience in French literature, literary theory, and translation studies at BA and MA levels. She has designed and taught courses such as Introduction to French Literature, 19th Century French Literature, French Stylistics, French Literature and its Study (based on her PhD research), as well as courses in French grammar and syntax. She has also taught a broad range of courses in translation, including MA-level seminars on translation theory, history of translation studies, literary translation research, history of translated literature, and legal translation, as well as project- and practice-oriented courses. She created a lecture series on Albert Camus in cooperation with the University of Helsinki’s MA program and the Helsinki Summer University. Her responsibilities have included course design, lecturing, seminars, translation workshops, supervising theses, assessment, and integrating research-based teaching into the curriculum. Her teaching approach is student-centred, dialogical, and strongly interaction-oriented.