Stephanie Schechner

Stephanie Schechner is Professor of French at Widener University. She is the author of numerous articles on such French and Francophone women writers as Nathalie Sarraute, Colette, Rachilde, and Jovette Marchessault. She is one of a small number of scholars who have written on Mireille Best. Her publications include: “La Lutte contre la normalisation : la représentation de l’adolescence lesbienne dans les œuvres de Jovette Marchessault et Mireille Best. ” De l'invisible au visible: l'imaginaire littéraire et artistique de Jovette Marchessault. Edited by Roseanna Dufault and Celita Lamar. Montreal, Canada : Les Editions de Remue-Ménage, 2012 ; “The Lesbian Body in Motion: Representations of Corporeality and Sexuality in the Novelsof Mireille Best.” Lesbian Inscriptions in Francophone Society and Culture. Edited by Renate Günther and Wendy Michallat. Durham, England: Durham UP, 2007. Pages 123-142; and “The Young Woman and the Sea: Lesbians Coming of Age in Coastal Communities in the Novels of Mireille Best.” Women in French Studies 11 (2003): 50-63.