Peter Russella

Peter Russella is a graduate student in French at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is writing a dissertation titled À Feu Tournant: The Lighthouses of French-Language Literature, Comics, and Film. He has recently published two articles on literary lighthouses. His work on comics, “Making the French Lighthouse Breton in Emmanuel Lepage’s Ar-Men”, was included in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies in June 2025. He also wrote “The Lighthouses on Victor Hugo’s Sea/Shore” for the Autumn 2025 issue of the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics.