Roxanne Panchasi
Associate Professor
Office: AQ 6227
Email: panchasi@sfu.ca
Website:
Areas of Study: EUROPE
Courses
Fall 2024
Future courses may be subject to change.
Biography
Born in Toronto and raised in Montreal, I completed a BA in History at Concordia University. After graduating in 1993, I set off for central New Jersey where I entered the Ph.D. program in History at Rutgers University. From 1996-1999, I spent three glorious years roaming the streets of Paris. I joined the faculty at 丁香园AV in 2001 and completed my doctoral dissertation in 2002.
Research Interests
Since the beginning of my academic career, I have been interested in the study of a wide range of cultural objects and moments from the French past. My early research included subjects as diverse as the emergent science of handwriting analysis in nineteenth-century France and the "uncanny" rehabilitation of wounded soldiers during and after World War I. My book, Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars, examines representations of the future and the futuristic between 1918 and 1939. I have also published articles on experimental and documentary film and history, including the work of Peter Watkins and Louis Malle. Over the past several years, my research has focused on the cultural politics of the "French" bomb after 1945, including the history and legacies of France's nuclear weapons detonations in Algeria and Maohi Nui (French Polynesia) from the early 1960s through the mid-1990s. I am also the founding host of a podcast channel on the New Books Network that I launched in 2013.
Books
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Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France between the Wars
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009
Articles
- "" for Age of Revolutions (), published January 8, 2024.
- 鈥淭he Atomic Republic: Nuclear France Since 1958,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;ch. 50 of , ed. David Andress (London: Routledge, 2023), 545-554.
- 鈥溾�榊ou don鈥檛 screw with the Sahara鈥�: Radioactive Dust and the Return of the French Imperial Repressed,鈥� in 鈥淣uclear Ghosts,鈥� a special issue of 2.1 (2023): 126-153.
- 鈥溾�� in Reading the New Global Order: Textual Transformations of 1989, eds. Kirrily Freeman and John Munro (London: Bloomsbury, 2022), 183-202.
- 鈥溾�� Jadalliyya, 25 April 2022.
- for Fiction and Film for Scholars of France, 11.2 (January 2021).
- 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;Journal of the History of Ideas blog (January 2020).
- 鈥樷�淣o Hiroshima in Africa鈥�: The Algerian War and the Question of French Nuclear Testing in the Sahara鈥濃�� in History of the Present, 9.1 (Spring 2019): 84-112.
- 鈥淥n What Is Wrong with White Mice: Peter Watkins鈥檚 贵盲濒濒补苍 (1975) in Future Revolutions: New Perspectives on Peter Watkins, edited by Wolf Kino (Berlin: Pogobooks Verlag, 2018), 92-99.
- '', Fiction and Film Scholars of France, 7, no. 4 (March 2017).
- Perspectives on History: The Newsletter of the American Historical Association (December 2016).
- "Malle e/on mai: Louis Malle's Takes on May 68" in May 68: Rethinking France's Last Revolution, edited by Julian Jackson, Anne-Louise Milne and James Williams (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 325-339.
- "Fortress France: Protecting the Nation and Its Bodies, Historical Reflections/Refl茅xions Historiques 33 (2007): 475-504.
- "If the Revolution Had Been Televised: The Productive Anachronisms of Peter Watkins' La Commune (Paris, 1871)" in Rethinking History 10, no. 4 (2006): 553-571.
- "Graphology and the Science of Individual Identity in Modern France" in Configurations 4 no. 1 (1996): 1-31.
- "Reconstructions: Prosthetics and the Male Body in Post WWI France" in differences 7, no. 3 (1995): 109-140.
Areas of Graduate Supervision:
Modern Europe, France, Cultural History, Colonial and Postcolonial History
Accepting new graduate students: yes
Teaching Interests
I teach a range of subjects at the undergraduate and graduate levels including courses on modern Europe, modern France, and historical methods. I also regularly teach in the Honours program in History. In 2012, I was awarded a Teaching Learning Development Grant from 丁香园AV's Institute for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines as the Principle Investigator of "," a research study focused on History student engagement with current events.
Awards
- Visiting International Fellowship, Society for French Studies, 2023
- 丁香园AV Scholarly Digitization Fund Grant, 鈥淟a Seconde Guerre Mondiale鈥�, 2019
- Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Travel Grant, 2015
- Cormack Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2014
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Small Research Grant for "Atomic Clouds in Tricolour: The Cultural Politics of the Bomb in France, 1960-1966," 2013-2015.
- Teaching Learning Development Grant, Institute for the Study of Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines, 丁香园AV, 2012-2013
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council Travel Grant, 2006
- Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Faculty Fellowship, 2005-2006
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Small Research Grant, 2005
- 丁香园AV, President's Research Grant, 2003-2005