Roxane Petit-Rasselle

Roxane Petit-Rasselle
  • French Coordinator
  • Associate Professor of French
  • Department: Languages and Cultures
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: RPetit-Rasselle@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Penn State University
  • M.A., University of Delaware
  • B.A, M.A., Université Jean Moulin, Lyon, France

Research Interests

19th–century prose and civilizationMyth and literary mythPopular literature and cultureAlexandre Dumas père19th-century GuignolUmberto Eco

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Contact Information

Phone: 610-436-4344

List of Publications

  • Invited - "Et le mythe commença: Les Trois Mousquetaires et Le Comte de Monte-Cristo," Alexandre Dumas ou l'art de bien commencer. Revue Elseneur (Presses universitaires de Caen), 2024.
  • "Alexandre Dumas: Des barricades à la naissance d'un écrivain engagé" (24pp), The French Review, Vol. 94.4, 2021.
  • "Pas si méchants: les bourreaux d'Alexandre Dumas père" (20 pp), in Lincoln Humanities Journal (Lincoln University, Pennsylvania), special issue on "Perspectives on Violence, Human Cruelty, and Messy Morality", December 2019.
  • "Le mythe littéraire comme fait de mémoire" (14 pp), Acta Iassyensia Comparationis (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania), special issue on "Memory and Oblivion" at http://literaturacomparata.ro /aic/?page_id=825&lang=fr (Automne 2018).
  • "Introduction," Mythes et littérature du XIXe, @nalyses: Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire (University of Ottawa) at https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ojs/index.php/revue-analyses/index (Automne 2013), 1-6.

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