Editors
FranÇois Massonnat is a fourth-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 teaching a course titled "Masterpieces of French Cinema."
Anne Bornschein is a third-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 fourth-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 project dealing with the novels of Roberto Bolaño.
Samuel Martin is a third-year student in the French department at the University of Pennsylvania. His academic interests include modern and contemporary poetry, epistolary poetics, and 20th-century Swiss literature. His current research revolves around the respective "poéthiques" of Philippe Jaccottet, Gustave Roud, and Pierre-Albert Jourdan. Samuel presently works as an editorial assistant to French Forum.