Champs de spécialisation des professeur.e.s

French Studies faculty research areas

Faculty Areas of research
Tara Collington 20th- and 21st-century French literature, particularly the novel; Bakhtin Studies (chronotope, polyphony, carnival); adaptation studies; intermediality (photography/painting and literature); representations of interiority in the novel.
Catherine Dubeau 18th century French literature, diaries, novels, essays, epistolary writing, preromanticism, psychoanalytic criticism, sociology of literature, Mme Necker, Mme de Staël.
Valérie Dusaillant-Fernandes
20th and 21st French and Francophone literature, Trauma studies; Genocide Studies, Psychoanalytic theories, Postcolonial theories, Feminist theories and Women's Writing, Life Writing Theories, Body Studies, Rewriting in literature (repetition/intertextuality), Comic and Graphic novels.
Nicolas Gauthier

19th-century French literature; 19th-century and contemporary detective novels; popular culture and mass media studies; 19th-century press; roman-feuilleton; reading and reception theories; poetics and narrative studies.

Nicolas Hebbinckuys 17th century French literature, Travel literature, Iconography (maps and engravings) in early New France, Representations of the American otherness (people and spaces), New technologies in FSL
Svetlana Kaminska

Prosodic variation in Canadian and European French, French in contact, General and French phonology, General and French phonetics, Dialectal variation in French, Sociolinguistics

Élise Lepage

Littérature et culture québécoises; Poésie; Géopoétique, théories du paysage; Écopoétique, écoféminisme; Régionalité, migrations, tourisme et lieux postindustriels; Littérature et études culturelles des minorités de la francophonie canadienne; Théories du care et de l’intersectionnalité; les dynamiques de pouvoir envers les minorités ou des groupes marginalisés; Littérature et arts visuels

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

Christine McWebb Medieval French literature, Christine de Pizan, Iconography, Textual Studies, Mysticism, Feminism, Translation Theory, Cultural Studies
Nicole Nolette Littératures franco-canadiennes et québécoises, Traduction et traductologie, Théâtre contemporain (Canada), Plurilinguisme littéraire, Littérature comparée (canadienne-française et canadienne-anglaise) et littérature-monde, Approches phénoménologiques des affects et des émotions, Sociologie de la culture, ethnographie et sociolinguistique, Technologies de la traduction et du théâtre
Guy Poirier French Renaissance literature, Travel literature,  Québécois & French Canadian literatures, Renaissance Cultural History, Queer Studies