About Jean-Patrick Debbeche Jean-Patrick Debbèche has a PhD in Semiotics and French Literature and is a researcher at the University of Toronto. Books by Jean-Patrick Debbeche On the Comic and Laughter by (author) Vladimir Propp edited and translated by Jean-Patrick Debbeche & Paul J. Perron Reading Theatre by (author) Anne Ubersfeld edited by Jean-Patrick Debbeche & Paul J. Perron translated by Frank Collins