Dr. Alexandra Reuber is the Director of the French Language Program at Tulane University, New Orleans, where she teaches classes in French language, literature, and culture, in language pedagogy, as well as in folklore and in comparative literature
...MoreDr. Alexandra Reuber is the Director of the French Language Program at Tulane University, New Orleans, where she teaches classes in French language, literature, and culture, in language pedagogy, as well as in folklore and in comparative literature. Her research focuses on personalizing second language acquisition, the development of gothic and fantastic writing, as well as on the adaptation and transformation of classical works in popular culture texts and films, and their use in the classroom. Recent publications include “King’s Psychological Gothicism in Secret Window, Secret Garden: Repression, Illusion, and Parasomnia, or … How Well Did You Sleep?” in The Popular Culture Review Vol. 24.1 (2013), “Identity Crisis and Personality Disorders in Edgar Allan Poe’s “William Wilson” (1839), David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), and James Mangold’s Identity (2003),” in Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in International and Popular Culture. Ed. Carl Sederholm and Dennis Perry. Palgrave-Macmillan, (August 2012), “From Association, to the Acquisition, Process, and Consolidation of New Language Material: A Differentiated Approach to French Vocabulary Instruction” published in Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching (JLLT) Vol. 3.2 (2012), and “How to Use the Pop-Screen in Literary Studies” published in The Journal of College Teaching and Learning 7.8 (July 2010).
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