Roswitha Zahlner, Ph.D.
Department of Modern Languages, English, and Gender Studies
Education
Ph.D. in French Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, 2005.
M.A. in French Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, 1999.
Maîtrise + Licence en Littératures et Civilisations Étrangères, Anglais (English),
Université de Nice, Sophia Antipolis, 1995.
Practice Areas
- Postcolonial and Francophone Literature
- Exoticism and Auto-exoticism
- Women's and Gender Studies
- Language Acquisition (French, ESL) and Writing
- Coordinator of language immersion summer camps
- Senator of the Faculty Senate of Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus
- Music (violin, voice) and Karate (3rd Dan Federación Madrileña de Karate)
Research Interests
- Anti- and Auto-Exoticism in the Works of Three North African Women Writers
- The Humanities and Social Sciences
Publications and Media Placements
Dissertation
Zahlner, Roswitha. Anti-and Auto-Exoticism in the Works of Three North African Women Writers. Dissertation Abstracts International, 2006.
Journal Articles
Zahlner, Roswitha. Strategic auto-exoticism: Camara Laye’s L’Enfant noir (1953) and Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (1994): The Journal of Postcolonial Writing 57 (4), 2021.
Zahlner, Roswitha. L'appropriation de l'expérience noire dans deux romans de la littérature acadienne : Pélagie-la-Charrette et Moncton Mantra. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, 2005 June; 32 (2): 183-197.
Zahlner, Roswitha. Emerging Narrative Worlds in Emna Belhaj Yahia´s Novels Chronique frontalière (1991), L’Étage invisible (1996), Tasharej (2000), and Jeux de rubans (2011). Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, (JMMLA), Special Issue: “The Lives of Cities” 2015 Fall; 48 (2): 113-136.
