Overview

Brigitte Roussel received her PhD in French Literature from the University of Kansas. She earned a Master鈥 s degree in English Literature from the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Paris III) in France.

Her teaching interests include Intermediate and Advanced grammar and conversation, French phonetics, older French civilization, and early modern French literature. 

She has published in The French Review, L鈥橢sprit Cr茅ateur, the MLA Teaching of World Literature Series, 脡tudes Litt茅raires, Romance Notes, among other venues, and has presented at numerous conferences.

She was Faculty Senate President during AY 2006-07; she serves as World Language Teacher Education Program Chair at WSU and as University Supervisor in the local schools; she serves on academic editorial boards, and currently chairs the University Exceptions Committee. 

She has been moderating a monthly French Book Club at Watermark Books & Caf茅 since 2005 and has made numerous community presentations on women, politics and immigrants in France. She serves as journalistic liaison on current events for French newspapers and radio stations as well as American news broadcasts.

Curriculum Vitae

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Areas of Research Interest

Early Modern French women writers; French Renaissance literature; gendered discourse through rhetoric; personal and social violence and their mythical/mythological origins; surviving endemic violence; generic transformations and rewritings of literary themes and genres. 

Areas of Teaching Interest

Courses taught at WSU

Seminar in Pedagogy (grad)

Older French Civilization

French Phonetics

Early Modern Literature Courses

Advanced French Conversation

Advanced French Grammar and Composition

Intermediate French Grammar, Conversation and Composition

Survey Courses in French Literature

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

鈥淰茅nus endeuill茅e 脿 la Renaissance.鈥 脡tudes Litt茅raires 45: 1, 2014.

鈥淟ouise Lab茅鈥檚 Sonnet X: The Green Laurel and Women鈥檚 Poetics.鈥 Romance Notes XXXVIII: 1, 1997.

鈥淧erspectivisme et diff茅rance f茅minine dans Amandes et melon.The French Review 71:2, 1997.

鈥淐ircularit茅 et circulation dans Germinal: L鈥檃ll茅gorie de la mine.鈥 Excavatio III, 1993.

鈥淟e Jeu du Je chez Madeleine Monette.鈥 Revue Francophone de Louisiane V:1, 1990.   

 

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

鈥淩einscribing the Feminine in La Navire and Le Miroir de Jhesus Christ Crucifi茅.鈥 L鈥橢sprit Cr茅ateur. Special issue: Women in the World and Works of Marguerite de Navarre. 57:3, 2017.

鈥淣icole Estienne and the Question of Marriage.鈥 MLA - Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation, 2011.

鈥淧erspectivisme et diff茅rance f茅minine dans Amandes et melon.鈥 Summa Publications, Inc. 1999.

 

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

鈥淟ouise Lab茅 et le n茅o-platonisme dans le D茅bat de Folie et d鈥橝mour.鈥 Continental, Latin-American and Francophone Women Writers: Selected Papers from the 成人头条 Conference on Foreign Literature, 1997.

鈥淟鈥櫭塵ergence de la dissimulation dans un roman de Marie-Claire Blais.鈥 Continental, Latin-American and Francophone Women Writers: Selected Papers from the 成人头条 Conference on Foreign Literature, 1988.

 

Peer-reviewed Encyclopedia Entries

鈥淧ernette du Guillet.鈥 Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England, 2007.

鈥淢arceline Desbordes-Valmore.鈥 A Feminist Companion to French Literature, 1999.

 

Book Prefaces

Comparing Six Translations of Miguel Cervant猫s 鈥檚 El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, 2009.

 

Book Reviews

鈥淲omen and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563.鈥 Edited by Susan Broomhall. (Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World.) Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. French Studies, 2020.

芦Diane.禄 Nicolas de Montreux. Edited and translated by Richard Hillman. Presses Universitaires Fran莽ois Rabelais. 2019. Renaissance Quarterly, 2020.

鈥淭he Other Pascals: The Philosophy of Jacqueline Pascal, Gilberte Pascal P茅rier, and Marguerite P茅rier.鈥 John J. Conley. University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. Renaissance Quarterly, December 2020.

芦Marguerite d鈥橝uge, Ren茅e Burlamacchi, and Jeanne du Laurens - Sin and Salvation in Early Modern France: Three Women鈥檚 Stories.鈥 Colette Winn, ed. Nicholas Van Handel, trans. Toronto: Iter Press, 2017. Early Modern Women Journal, 2019.

鈥淭he Thirteenth Century: A World History.鈥 Richard Bressler, McFarland, 2018. SMART, Fall 2019.

鈥淎pproaches to Teaching the Works of Christine de Pizan.鈥 Edited by Andrea Tarnowski, MLA, 2018. SMART, Summer 2019.

鈥淚nvoluntary Confessions of the Flesh in Early Modern France.鈥 Nora Martin Peterson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2016. The French Review, vol. 91.4, spring 2018. pp. 264-265.   

鈥淐hallenges to Traditional Authority: Play by French Women Authors 1650-1700. Fran莽oise Pascal, Marie-Catherine Desjardins, Antoinette Deshouli猫res, Catherine Durand.鈥 Ed. and trans. Perry Gethner. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series 36; Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 477; Toronto: Iter Academy Press; Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015. Renaissance Quarterly, issue (70.1), spring 2017.

鈥淲omen and Writing c.1340-c.1650: The Domestication of Print Culture. Edited by Anne Lawrence-Mathers and Philippa Hardman. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2010. SMART (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching). Volume 23, Issue 2, Fall 2016. 149-55.

鈥淭he Medieval Sea鈥. Susan Rose. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007. SMART. Volume 23, Issue 1. Spring 2016. 161-65. 16165.

鈥淐ommunal Discord, Child Abduction and Rape in the Middle Ages鈥. Jeremy Goldberg. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. SMART. Volume 21, Issue 1, Spring 2014. 143-51.

鈥淭he Medieval French Pastourelle Tradition 鈥 Poetic Motivations and Generic Transformations鈥. Geri L. Smith. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2009. SMART. Volume 20, Issue 2, Fall 2013. 155-160.

Les Ep卯tres famil猫res et invectives et Le Songe d鈥橦茅lisenne de Crenne 禄. Ed. Jean-Philippe Beaulieu. Saint-Etienne: Publications de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Saint-Etienne sous la direction d鈥橢liane Viennot, 2008. Women In French, 2010. 

鈥淭he Chastity Belt in the Middle Ages: a Myth-making Process鈥. Albrecht Classen. SMART. Volume 17, Issue 1, Spring 2010. 133-37.

 鈥淭he Companion to the Fairy Tale鈥. Edited by Hilda Ellis and Davidson and Anna Chaudhri. SMART. Volume 20, Issue 1, Spring 2009. P. 153-55.

鈥淧ernette du Guillet, Rymes, edition critique Christian Barataud et Danielle Trudeau, Paris, Champion (Textes de la Renaissance N藲129). Biblioth猫que d鈥橦umanisme et de Renaissance. Volume LXX-2, 2008, p. 501-04.

芦Les Femmes et la tradition litt茅raire. Anthologie du Moyen 脗ge 脿 nos jours.禄 Premi猫re Partie. Vicki Mistacco. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Women in French, 2007.

鈥淧rions en chantant: Devotional Songs of the Trouv猫res鈥. Edited and translated by Marcia Jenneth Epstein. SMART. Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 2006, p. 113-16.

鈥淭ortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France鈥 by Lisa Silverman. SMART. Volume 10, Issue 2, Fall 2003. P. 87-91. 

Autour de Montaigne.禄 Emile Faguet. Pr茅face d鈥橝ntoine Compagnon. Paris: Champion, 1999. The French Review. 2001.

鈥淩enaissance Resonance: Lyric Modality in La Cepp猫de鈥檚 Th茅or猫mes 禄 by Russell Ganim. The French Review. May 2000.Volume 73, No.6, pp. 1219-1220.

芦 Le Triumphe des Vertuz 禄 by Jean Th茅naud. Edited by Titia J. Schuuurs-Janssen. The Sixteenth Century Journal. Spring 1999. Vol. XXX, No.1, pp. 194-196.

芦骋补谤驳补苍迟耻补.禄 Fran莽ois Rabelais. Ed. Nicole Cazauran, pr茅sentation et notes, et Marie-Claire Thomine, transcription du texte. Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, 1997. The French Review. 1999.

鈥淟es Angoysses douloureuses qui procedent d鈥檃mours.禄 Helisenne de Crenne. Ed. Christine de Buzon, 1997. The French Review. 1998.

鈥淟es Epistres familieres et invectives de ma dame H茅lisenne鈥. Edited by Jerry C. Nash. The Sixteenth Century Journal. Spring 1998. Vol.XXIX, No 1, pp. 128-30.

鈥淟e Triumphe des Vertuz. Premier Trait茅: Le Triumphe de Prudence.鈥 Jean Thenaud. Ed. Titia J. Schuurs-Janssen. Textes Litt茅raires Fran莽ais. Geneva: Droz, 1997. Sixteenth Century Journal, 1998. 

鈥淟a Po茅sie du ciel en France dans la seconde moiti茅 du seizi猫me si猫cle鈥 by Isabelle Pantin. The Sixteenth Century Journal. Fall 1997. Vol.XVIII, No 3, pp. 926-27. 

鈥淭he Subject of Desire: Petrarchan Poetics and the Female Voice in Louise Lab茅鈥 by Deborah Lesko Baker. The Sixteenth Century Journal. Fall 1997. Vol.XVIII, No 3, pp. 997-99.

"A History of the French Language through Texts" by Wendy Ayres-Bennett. Rocky Mountain Review. Spring 1997. Vol.51, No 1, pp. 78-80.

"Androgyny and the Denial of Difference" by Kari Weil. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature. Winter 1995. Vol. 19, No 1, pp. 146-48.

"The Voice of the Troba茂ritz: Perspectives on the Women Troubadours". Edited by William D. Paden.  Synopsis 3 1991-93. Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston.  pp. 85-88.

Awards and Honors
  • May 2017: 成人头条 John R. Barrier Distinguished Teaching Award in LAS for Humanities and Social Sciences
  • September 2012: 30 years of service at WSU
  • May 2008: President鈥檚 Distinguished Service Award 鈥 WSU  Presidential Award 
  • September 2007: 25 years of faculty service to 成人头条
  • May 2006: Leadership in the Advancement of Teaching Award - WSU Presidential Award
  • October 2002: Best Educator of the Year Award (created that year) 鈥 regional 鈥 Kansas American Association of the Teachers of French
  • May 1998: Faculty Mentor of the year for French student: Emory Lindquist Honors - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.
  • May 1996: WSU Best Advisor Award for French Honors Society Pi Delta Phi.
  • May 1988: Honors Reception Award: for Excellence in Graduate Studies at the Ph.D. level, University of Kansas.
  • May 1987: Honors Reception Award: for Excellence in Graduate Studies at the Ph.D. level, University of Kansas.
Areas of Service

成人头条

Liaison with School of Education in the College of Applied Studies (Program Chair)

Field Placements for and supervisor of World Language Teacher Education candidates (Program Chair)

University Exceptions Committee (Chair)

Faculty Senate (Member and President)

LAS College Council (Sub-committee Chair)

Departmental T&P Committee (Chair)

WSU-Orl茅ans Exchange Program for Study Abroad (Coordinator)

Immersion Day for French High School Students (Organizer)

French Honors Society (Academic Advisor)

Academic Editorial Boards (Assistant Editor)

 

成人头条 Greater Area

French Book Club at Watermark Books & Caf茅 (Group Leader)

Community Involvement with presentations on women, politics and immigrants in France

Journalistic liaison on current events for French newspapers and radio stations as well as American news broadcasts