Michèle Schaal
Professor of French and women's and gender studies at Iowa State University and author of the monograph on Virginie Despentes; scholar of contemporary French women's writing and feminist literary studies.
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Feb 24, 2026 • 36min
Michèle Schaal, "Grrrl Writing: Virginie Despentes's Authorial Politics" (Peter Lang, 2026)
Michèle Schaal, Professor of French and Women’s and Gender Studies and author of Grrrl Writing, explores Virginie Despentes’s punk‑infused authorial politics. She connects Riot Grrrl currents to Despentes’s novels. Short takes cover Baise‑moi’s picaresque reading, noir and materialist feminist angles, gender‑bending practices, and why biography and reception matter.
Feb 24, 2026 • 36min
Michèle Schaal, "Grrrl Writing: Virginie Despentes's Authorial Politics" (Peter Lang, 2026)
Michèle Schaal, Professor of French and women’s and gender studies who wrote a monograph on Virginie Despentes. She maps Despentes’s punk‑infused “Grrrl writing.” Short takes cover Baise‑moi as picaresque critique, noir and materialist feminist readings, gender‑bent and punk lineages, twin plots and stunted female socialization, and how literary genres expose heteropatriarchal power.
