poirier@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x43394
Office: ML 335
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B.A. Université Laval, 1983
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M.A. McGill University, 1986
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PhD McGill University, 1991
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
BA (Montreal), PhD (State University of New York, Buffalo), FRSC
François Paré's work is in the area of minority literatures, literature as a cultural institution, and 16th-century France. His book, Les littératures de l'exiguïté (Le Nordir, 1992, 1995, 2001), was awarded the Governor General's Award in 1993.
Paul Socken is a specialist in French-Canadian literature, particularly in the novel. He has done research on the thematic and stylistic aspects of Gabrielle Roy and is currently publishing in the area of mythology and French-Canadian literature.
B.A., M.A. (Dalhousie), Doctorat 3e cycle (Aix-en-Provence)
rwryan@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x38645
Office: PAS 2418
Professor Ryan is a linguist whose field of specialization is the Acadian speech of Atlantic Canada. He has published two books on the phonology and the verb morphology of Nova Scotian Acadian dialect.
BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Professor Anne Marie Miraglia is a specialist of francophone novelists from Black and Arab Africa, Québec and the French Caribbean. Her research includes literary theory, semiotics, narratology and feminist criticism.