Professional Biography
Brooklyn born and bred, Rachel Nisselson earned her B.A. in French at Amherst College and her Ph.D. in French literature at Vanderbilt University. While at Vanderbilt, Rachel helped train teaching assistants in various disciplines through the university’s Center for Teaching and co-wrote a lesson study that was published in the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching in 2016. Additional publications have appeared in The French Review and Expressions maghrébines.
Rachel currently teaches French and Spanish at the Loomis Chaffee School, where she also co-directs the Kravis Center for Excellence in Teaching and works closely with the Penn GSE Boarding School Teaching Residency fellows.
