Editors
FranÇois Massonnat is a third-year Ph.D. student in French Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on French film and 21st century literature. His research focuses primarily on questions of gender, performance, and genre in crime cinema from Louis Feuillade to Jacques Audiard. He is currently preparing for his Ph.D. exam and working as an editorial assistant for French Forum.
Anne Bornschein is a second-year Ph.D. student in French Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include medieval sexual discourse, gender theory, and cultural recycling in contemporary fiction. She is currently focusing on twentieth- and twenty-first-century renderings of the Arthurian cycle by authors such as Michel Rio, René Barjavel, and Jacques Roubaud.
Noble Novitzki is a third-year Ph.D. student in Hispanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research foci include contemporary Latin American narrative, theory of the novel, and narratives of migration and flight. Noble published a paper on the Argentine novelist Sergio Chejfec in the first volume of Working Papers, and is currently at work on a new project dealing with the novels of Roberto Bolaño. During the Spring 2008 semester, he is the teaching assistant for Spanish 390, "20th Century Latin American Literature," at Penn.
Former Editors
Angelina Stelmach is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in French Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation examines representations of the maternal in the work of late medieval author Christine de Pizan. Her research and teaching interests include gender and medieval narrative, Lacanian psychoanalysis, the Roman de la Rose, theories of ideology and contemporary feminist theory.
Autumn de LeÓn, currently on-leave from the Ph.D. course of study at Penn, in addition to acting as Chief Editor-at-Large, is conducting self-study research projects on medieval Moorish literature and classically inspired courtship and marital norms.