Enseignante de langues et littératures scandinaves, M.M.Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest est devenue l’une des rares spécialistes des langues finno-ougriennes d’Europe du Nord. Ethnolinguiste au Laboratoire LACITO et directrice de recherches au CNRS, elle se consacre aussi à la traduction et à l’écriture romanesque.
After a long career shared equally between different Universities and the French National Research Center (CNRS), from Scandinavian and Finno-Ugric field linguistics in Europe and California to theoretical linguistics on Orality, Cognitive typology and Semantics _ over 200 publications _, M.M.Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest is both Research Professor / and University Professor Emerita. She is also involved in literary translation and fiction writing.