Department Research
Our faculty members are active in research areas as diverse as:
- 17th century French literature with focus on theatre
- 20th century French and French Canadian novel and theatre
- Maghreb post-colonial literature and culture
- Postmodern and post-colonial literature and culture
- Contemporary French and Francophone cinema
- French, Quebec and Western Canadian Francophone women writers
- Translation studies & theory
- Literary translation
- Linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Language policy
- Creative writing
- Women’s and Gender Studies
- Queer Studies
- 20th century peninsular Spanish culture with focus on theatre, poetry and film
- Central American Literature
- Contemporary French and Latin American narrative
- Comparative Literature
- Cultural Studies
French Faculty Areas of Research Specialization
- Dr. Romain Chareyron: gender and sexuality in French cinema; the representation of disability in French cinema; the representation of youth in contemporary French and Francophone cinema; film genre
- Dr. Marie-Diane Clarke: child narratives; 20th century women writers of France and Quebec; Quebec theatre and poetry; the theatre of Western Canada
- Dr. Helena da Silva: 20th century novels of France and Quebec; Women authors and gender studies; literature and philosophy of socio-political and intellectual revolutions of 20th Century France and Quebec, and 18th Century France; contemporary literary theory; cinema
- Dr. Stella Spriet: contemporary literary criticism; French theatre of the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries; mise-en-scène and theatrical staging; women’s studies
- Dr. Anne-Marie Wheeler: translation studies; translation theory; literary theory; contemporary literary criticism; women writers; cinema
St. Thomas More College French Faculty
- Dr. Henri Biahé Manfouo: Translation studies; Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Pragmatics; Language Policy; Postcolianism, Literary Heteroglosia
- Dr. Tania Duclos: Romans français du 19e siècle (Balzac, Sand, Gautier);Intertextualité et intratextualité; Représentations de la femme de lettres; Projet Balzac et le monde anglophone
Spanish Faculty
- Dr. Julio Torres: Central American literature; testimonial literature; contemporary Peruvian narrative; Bryce Echenique; Creative Writing
German Faculty
- Dr. Silke Falkner: German women writers of the 17th Century; Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg; Emblem studies; Goethe, Gabrielle Alioth, Günter Grass; Medieval themes in contemporary literature; Gender theories