Literature Instructor: Solène Le Van

Solène Le Van is a graduate of Princeton University, where she studied French and Italian Literature and Culture and received the “highest commendation” for research on aesthetics, poetry, and music history. An Associate Instructor at Indiana University, she served as an Associate Editor of Classical Music for Picture This Post, a cultural magazine, and held an editorial position for Kunstkammer, a journal of art criticism. A recipient of Highest Honors with Distinction from the Royal College of Music in London, she studied voice and violin as well as criticism with Ivan Hewett, head critic of the Daily Telegraph. A recipient of the Cultural Service Award from the French Embassy in New York for her contributions to French culture as a writer and performer, she has been invited to lecture on literature, music, and the fine arts at Princeton, Stanford, UPenn, the New National Theater in Tokyo, and the SAE Creative Media Institute in Paris. As a high school and middle school writing counselor, she has helped students gain admittance to Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, USC, the Davidson Academy, Groton, Exeter, Choate, and the Stanford Gifted Program.