Roxanne Lalande

Roxanne Decker Lalande received her advanced degrees from the University of Iowa and is currently Professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Her main areas of research include seventeenth-century drama, comic theory, and women writers of the classical period. She has published three books, entitled Intruders in the Play World: The Dynamics of Gender in Molière's Comedies (1996) (for which she received the Choice Award), A Labor of Love: Critical Reflections on the Writings of Madame de Villedieu (2000), and a translation into English of Madame de Villedieu's Le Portefeuille and her Lettres et billets gallants (2005). She has a number of articles and books chapters to her credit, and is the co-editor of the 2008 annual conference proceedings of the North American Society for Seventeenth-Century Literature ( Nourritures). Currently, she is working on a novel of historical fiction based on events at the court of Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV, entitled Danse Macabre.