Anne-Marie Moscatelli is an Associate Professor of French at West Chester University who specializes in 16th century French literature and Francophone writers from West Africa and the Caribbean. She has taught a variety of French and Italian language and literature courses at the undergraduate level for over 20 years. Her research focuses on women writers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in France and Italy. She has received several honors and awards for her teaching and scholarship.

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Anne-Marie Moscatelli
Department of Languages and Cultures 401 Rogers Lane
237, Mitchell Hall Wallingford, PA 19086
West Chester University 610 565 0479 (home)
West Chester, PA 19383 610 905 9370 (cell)
610 436 2700
amoscatelli@wcupa.edu
Employment:
1996-present Associate Professor of French, West Chester University
(Spring) 2015 Sabbatical leave at NYU and Columbia University, NY.
1998 (summer) Visiting professor, French, University of Delaware
1997 (summer) Visiting professor, French, University of Delaware
1990-91 Research Associate, French, Bryn Mawr College
Lecturer, French, University of Delaware, Newark
Lecturer, French, University of Pennsylvania
1991-96 Assistant professor of French, West Chester University
1989-90 Visiting Assistant professor, French, Haverford and Bryn Mawr
Colleges joint departments
Courses taught - Undergraduate Level:
Elementary Classical Greek 101 & 102
Latin 405: Medieval Latin
Elementary Italian 101 & 102
Intermediate Italian 201 & 301
EFR 330: Francophone Civilization
French Language and Culture courses, all levels
French 311 & 315 French for Oral proficiency
French 301 & 305 (w) Advanced Grammar and Stylistics
French 304 Survey of French Literature, Middle Ages - present
Introduction to Literary Analysis
The Renaissance
Advanced Seminars 400-500 levels in French: (approximately a newone each Fall since my
hiring in 1991)
-COURSES 101-201
-Exploring Creole Culture Across National Boundaries
-French texts as sources of Operatic works
-French Medieval and Renaissance Poetry
- French Literary origins of selected opera
-XIX century French writers from Louisiana
- Food as text
-Representation of Woman in F. Mauriac, A.Ernaux et M.Duras’s
writings

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-Around the Francophone world in eight days (oral proficiency)
-Multiple Written Forms (summer intensive course)
-Immersion seminar on Guadeloupe (oral proficiency)
-Narratology
-Women writers of French Medieval and Renaissance Literature
-French Epistolary Novel, XVII and XVIII centuries
-Francophone Literature of West Africa and the Caribbean
-Rabelais: Pantagruel, Gargantua, Le Tiers-Livre
-La Renaissance, an interdisciplinary approach
-Fables, Legends and Tales, a study of the French Fairy Tales from
the Middle Ages to Modern Times
-Women writers
-Glossolalia and Perambulation of Narrative
-The Arthurian Novels
-Writing Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice
-Contemporary France (oral proficiency)
-Anouilh
-The Meaning of “Voyage” in French Literature, Middle-Ages-
present
-Writers from French West Indies and Haiti (Guadeloupe and
Martinique)
-West African writers
Areas of Specialization:
XVI century French Literature. Ph D. Thesis topic: The Complete
Works of Louise Labé and their Relation to Classical, Occitan and
Italian Literatures
Women Writers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in France and
Italy
Francophone Writers from West Africa and the French Caribbean
Teaching interest: raise awareness of French and Francophone
language, Cultures and Literatures at the beginner’s level; develop
techniques to increase oral proficiency.
Education:
Ph.D. May 1989, XVI century French Literature, Bryn Mawr
College/ University of Pennsylvania
M.A. June 1986, XX Century French Theatre, Bryn Mawr College
Baccalauréat Série Classique, Académie de Caen, France , and
B.A.Summa Cum Laude, Fordham University, New York, N.Y.
June 1975
Languages;
French and Italian, native (bilingual)
Spanish, advanced reading and comprehension

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Latin and Classical Greek (high school/college major)
Caribbean Creole (reading comprehension)
Honors / Awards:
Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award, December 2001
Faculty Development Award, May 1992
CASSDA Award, November 1992
Mrs Giles Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, 1988-89
The Doris Sill Carland Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Bryn
Mawr College, 1986-87
Administration:
Head of French and Italian sections, (Fall/2015/Spring 2016)
Pi delta Phi initiator and moderator (Spring 2012)
Director Fulbright-Hays Group Abroad project, Guadeloupe,
Summer 2007
Director, Global Development Collaborative Project, Guadeloupe,
Summer 2006
Interim Chair, Spring 2005
Chair Evaluation Committee, 1999-2001 & 2007-2009
Member of the Department’s Executive Committee
Assistant chair, 1996-present
Director Junior Year Abroad, 1991- 1993
Scholarly membership
Referee for College Literature , West Chester University
Member of the Tricollege (Bryn Mawr, Haverford,
Swarthmore) Medieval Studies Colloquium since 3/04
Grants:
NEH grant application, 2010, (not funded)
PASSHE Diversity and Equity Grant, 2009 (joint grant)
Fulbright Hays Group Study Abroad, funded Summer 2007
Global Development Collaborative Grants funded, 2006
Publications, Scholarly Activities and work in Progress
Scholarly work: "Living the Myth: Permanence of Human Ethos,"New
Directions in the Humanities”, Vancouver, U. of British
Columbia, June 2015
Small and Tall Heroes in Rabelais’s Pantagruel and Gargantua.
Conference in Colorado Springs, March 2014

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Rite de Passage dans L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, fantaisie lyrique
réunissant Maurice Ravel et Colette. Conference in Louisville,
Kentucky, February 2013
The Animism of Language, paper presented at the Francophone
Conference in Baton Rouge, March 2011
Creole, a symphonic language, paper presented at the ACLA
(American Comparative Literature Association) conference, New
Orleans, April 2, 2010
Presentation at the PASSHE Women’s Consortium
Annual Meeting WCU, Francophone Women Writers Around the
Globe: a path for each voice, Nov 5-6, 2009
Presented research on “ Variations in Fairy Tales, with the
Interpretations of Lacan, Kristeva and Bettelheim” West
Chester University, Departmental Research Day, Spring 2005
A Critical Reading of Perrault’s Little Red Riding hood, FR 12L
seminar, Swarthmore College, February 5, 2004
Participated in Francophone Literature Colloquia Series, Modern
Language Department, Swarthmore College, Spring 2002
The Artful Sadist: Swann and the Music of Sapphic Love,
article review for College Literature, published February 2001
Comparative Analysis of film Sugarcane Alley by film
director Euzhan Palcy and Zobel’s novel, Rue Cases-Nègres,
West Chester University, February 2001
The King and the Bird - Le Roi et l’Oiseau: a film by Paul
Grimault and Jacques Prévert, Review published in The
Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales ( Oxford and New York,
2000).
Francophony or Francophoney, Round Table Discussion,
West Chester University, Fall 2000
Gender Perspectives: Trading Clothes, Swapping Gender,
Changing Roles, paper read at the Eighteenth Annual
Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and
Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 1998

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Retour au Sein de la Mère, quête paradoxale de vie et d’oubli
dans l’œuvre de Maryse Condé, paper read at the 15th
International Colloquium in 20th Century French,
Studies. U. of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 1998
The Culture of French Speaking West Africa, Lecture,
Haverford Senior-High, March 1995
Les écrivains Francophones et la langue Créole, Lecture,
West Chester University, October 1995
Masks Mime and Pantomime: A Comparison between the
French Fabliau and the Commedia dell’Arte’s comical
Techniques, delivered at the Interdisciplinary Symposium in
Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of
Miami, February 1994
Two 16th Century Women Poets: Contrasting Gaspara
Stampa’s Rime and Louise Labé’s Sonnets; delivered at the
12th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and
Literatures, University of Cincinnati, May 1992
Creative writings:
Le Jardin de mon père, The French Literary Review, April 2015.
Selection of Haikus, Blognostics publishers, July 2015
Suite de Tankas autour de la peinture impressionniste ,
Revue du Tanka Francophone, Numéto 27, February 2016
Work in Progress and Future Goals:
- Anthology of less known French Authors -
- Rabelais: La Moëlle Médiévale de Gargantua