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Spring 2011

French Studies/Études françaises


Research Areas

Areas of Research
 
Currently, areas of research in the Department of French Studies MA program include:
  • French Literature: Medieval, Renaissance, Classicism, Classical Comedy, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Symbolist Poetry, Existentialism, Contemporary Theatre and Novel
  • Quebec and French Canadian Literature: Contemporary Quebec Theatre, Gabrielle Roy, Jacques Poulin, Franco-Ontarian and Acadian literatures
  • Francophone Caribbean and African Literatures: Maghreb Literatures, African Women Writers, Édouard Glissant and the Martinican Créolité Movement
  • Cultural and Literary Theory: Postcolonialism, Adaptation and Translation Theory, Feminist Literary Theory, Mythocriticism
  • Linguistics: History of the French Language, French Phonology and Morphology, Acadian Dialects

The PhD in French Studies is composed of the following three comprehensive fields of study: 

  • Electronic archiving, editing and publishing in a Francophone context
  • Early modern French l;iterary studies and theory
  • Cultural studies in a Francophone context

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