Contacts

B.A., M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Toronto)

Areas of specialization:

• 20th-century
• Bakhtin Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Theories of Time and Space in Narrative

BA, MA (Montréal), PhD (Montréal et Grenoble 3-Stendhal) 

Licence (Grenoble 3-Stendhal), MA (Lyon 2), PhD (British Columbia)

Research and teaching interests

• Québec literature and culture
• Poetry
• Geopoetics, theories of landscape
• Ecocriticism, ecofeminism
• Regionality, migrations, tourism, postindustrial places
• Literature and cultural studies of francophone minorities in Canada
• Theories of care and intersectionality; the dynamics of power on minorities or marginalized groups
• Literature and visual arts

BA, MA, PhD (Laval)

Areas of specialization:

• 18th century French literature
• manuscripts and critical edition
• preromanticism
• psychoanalytic criticism
• sociology of literature
• Suzanne Necker, Germaine de Staël

DEUG (Sorbonne Nouvelle), MA (Waterloo), PhD (Toronto)

Research and teaching interests

• 20^th and 21^st French and Francophone literature  
• Novels, Plays, Autobiographical/Autofictional Writing
• Trauma studies / Genocide
• Intergenerational/Transgenerational Transmission
• Psychoanalytic theories
• Postcolonial theories
• Feminist theories and Women’s Writing
• Comic and Graphic Novels

• Licence ès Lettres modernes, ICES (France) et Université Sainte-Anne (Nouvelle-Écosse), 2004
• Maîtrise en Littérature comparée, ICES (France), 2006
• PhD en Études littéraires, Université de Moncton (Nouveau-Brunswick), 2015

Research and Teaching Interests

• Littérature de voyage (XVI^e – XVII^e siècles)
• Édition critique des textes anciens
• Enseignement du français langue seconde
• Nouvelles technologies et création de contenus pour les cours en ligne

BA, MA (Minsk), MA (Western Ontario), PhD (Western Ontario)

Areas of specialization:

• Rhythm and intonation
• Dialectal variation in French
• French in contact
• General and French phonology
• General and French phonetics
• Sociolinguistics

B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Western)

Areas of specialization:

• Digital cultures
• Digital humanities
• Medieval French literature
• Christine de Pizan
• Iconography
• Textual Studies
• Mysticism
• Feminism
• Translation Theory
• Cultural Studies

• B.A. University of Alberta, 2006
• M.A. University of Alberta, 2008
• PhD McGill University, 2014

Areas of specialization: 

- Literature, culture and theatre by Francophone minorities in Canada

- Québec literature, culture and theatre

- Translation Studies

- Contemporary Theatre

- Comparative and World Literature

BA (Laval), MA, PhD (McGill), FRSC/MSRC

Areas of specialization:

• French Renaissance literature
• Travel literature
• Québécois & French Canadian literatures
• Renaissance Cultural History

BA (Minsk), MA (Minsk), MA (Western University)

Areas of specialization:

• Linguistics

B.A. (Western), B.Ed. (Brock), PhD (Toronto)

Research and teaching interests

• French for beginners and intermediate learners
• Content-based instruction
• French Literature of the 19^th and 20^th centuries
• Animal Studies

BA, MA (Laval)

BA (Minsk), MA, PhD (Western Ontario)

Areas of specialization:

• Linguistics

Maria Petrescu a terminé son doctorat à l’Université de Waterloo avec une thèse sur l’image de la prison dans la littérature française et québécoise, avant d’enseigner des cours de littérature et de français langue seconde dans plusieurs universités ontariennes. À présent, elle se consacre à l'étude de la souffrance dans la littérature carcérale. Maria s’intéresse aussi à l’image de la femme, de l’amour et du mariage dans la littérature de la Renaissance et a publié plusieurs articles dans le domaine de la linguistique.