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. “Où le mythe garantit le genre: Dionysos et La Dame de Monsoreau,” Mythes et littérature du XIXe, @nalyses: revue de critique et de théorie littéraire (University of Ottawa) at (Automne 2013), 114-41. “Le problème du héros dans Les Trois Mousquetaires,” The French Review, vol. 84 (April 2011), 978-90. “Enseigner le mythe littéraire: pour une approche interdisciplinaire des Trois Mousquetaires” (24 pp), Synergies Canada (University of Guelph, February 2010) at . “Jeux de miroirs dans la poésie de Colin Muset,” Murmure 6 (Spring 1999), 85-95. Invited – 2nd publication of updated “From the Literary Myth to the ‘Lieu de Mémoire’: Alexandre Dumas and French National Identity(ies),” Alexandre Dumas as a French Symbol since 1870: All for One and One for All in a Global France. Edited by Eric Martone. Toronto: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. “Production d’un roman d’aventures: de l’utilité du cheval dans Les Trois Mousquetaires," Aller(s) et Retour(s): Collected Essays. Edited by Loïc Guyon and Andrew Watts. Toronto: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, 266-76. Invited – “From the Literary Myth to the ‘Lieu de Mémoire’: Alexandre Dumas and French National Identity(ies),” The Black Musketeer: Reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World. Edited by Eric Martone. Toronto: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, 163-91.