Our 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
• Hispanic Canadian literature
• Comparative literature
• Cultural Studies
• Ukrainian language and culture

• Dr. Henri Biahé Manfouo: Translation studies; Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Pragmatics; Language Policy; Postcolianism, Literary Heteroglosia
• 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. 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 
• 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

• Dr. Julio Torres: Central American literature; Hispanic Canadian literature; testimonial literature; contemporary Peruvian narrative; Bryce Echenique; Creative Writing
• Dr. Alison Smith    

• 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

• Dr. Nadya Foty-Oneschuk: Ukrainian language; Ukrainian folklore and ethnography; Ukrainian Canadian culture