杏吧原创

After completing my BA and MA at the University of Victoria, I undertook doctoral studies at the University of Toronto under the direction of Frederick Ivor Case. I earned my PhD in 2003 and arrived in the French Department at 杏吧原创 the following year. My principle areas of interest are the literatures in French of the Caribbean and Africa, especially women鈥檚 writing. In recent years, I have been drawn to writing of members of the Haitian diaspora in Qu茅bec, with a focus on聽vodou聽mythology and on intertextuality.

I currently split my time between the French Department and the Institute of African Studies.

Research Interests

• The zombie figure in literature
• Caribbean literature in French
• African literature in French (north and south of the Sahara)
• Literary representation of psychic processes
• Vodou in literature
• Postcolonial literary theory
• Intertextuality

2024-2025 Courses

• FREN 2202A (Fall)
• FREN 2202B (Winter)
• FREN 3050A (Fall)
• FREN 3218A (Winter)

Books:

Univers intimes:聽 pour une po茅tique de la vie int茅rieure au f茅minin dans la litt茅rature carib茅enne. New York : Peter Lang, 2008. Volume 17 in the Caribbean Studies Series (Tamara Alvarez-Detrell and Michael G. Paulson, eds.)

Articles:

鈥淪tanley P茅an鈥檚 Intertextual 顿茅迟辞耻谤蝉聽: the Forest for the Trees.鈥� Quebec Studies 69 (Spring/Summer 2020) 89-108.

鈥淟ire les r茅seaux intertextuels dans la litt茅rature qu茅b茅coise contemporaine/Reading Intertextual Networks in Contemporary Qu茅b茅cois Literature鈥�, Introduction (with Catherine Khordoc), Quebec Studies 69 (Spring/Summer 2020) 3-6.

鈥淓zili et Solitude 脿 Montr茅al: mythologie des Am茅riques et exp茅rience f茅minine dans Le livre d鈥橢mma de Marie-C茅lie Agnant.鈥� Voix et images 132 (Spring/Summer 2019) 137-154.

鈥淲here Literature Fills the Gaps: Lawrence Hill鈥檚聽The Book of聽聽Negroes聽as a Canadian Work of Re-Memory.鈥澛�Studies in Canadian聽Literature/脡tudes en litt茅rature canadienne聽36:2 (2011) 237-254.

鈥淧our une relecture de聽Zoune chez sa ninnaine聽de Justin Lh茅risson.鈥� Dans聽Francophonie litt茅raire du Sud聽: un divers singulier聽. Sous la direction de Najib Redouane. Paris聽: L鈥橦armattan, septembre 2006.

鈥淟ooking Back to Move Forward聽: The Counter-Poetics of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction.鈥澛�Journal of Caribbean Literatures聽3.2 (Spring 2002)聽: 23-35.

Edited collections

Guest co-editor (with Catherine Khordoc), special dossier of Quebec Studies 69聽 (Spring/Summer 2020).

With Claudia Labrosse. Corps 茅crit, corps 茅crivant聽: le corps f茅minin dans les litt茅ratures francophones des Am茅riques. Bern: Peter Lang, 2015.

Recent Graduate Supervisions:

Serge Ekomo, MA French, 2018
Research Essay, 芦聽L鈥檌dentit茅 en question聽: travail de m茅moire et qu锚te de l鈥檃lt茅rit茅 comme modalit茅s de reconstitution identitaire dans Les Pieds sales et Explication de la nuit d鈥橢dem Awumey聽禄

Lubuya Tshiswaka, MA French, 2016
Research Essay, 芦聽La repr茅sentation de la folie chez les personnages f茅minins de C鈥檈st vole que je vole de Nicole Cage-Florentiny et de C鈥檈st le soleil qui m鈥檃 br没l茅e de Calixthe Beyala聽禄

Omer Koumda, MA French, 2016
Research Essay, 芦聽La question du pouvoir dans La Gr猫ve des b脿ttu d鈥橝minata Sow Fall聽禄

M茅lanie Martin (with Catherine Khordoc) 鈥淔emmes rebelles: la r茅volte de la danseuse dans trois romans contemporains鈥� (2013)

Morgan Faulkner (with Catherine Khordoc) 鈥淟angue et m茅moire dans聽La femme aux pieds nus聽de Scholastique Mukasonga鈥� (2010)

Leah Roth 鈥淒鈥檜ne femme 脿 l鈥檃utre: la transmission de la m茅moire dans Le Livre d鈥橢mma et Corregidora鈥� (2009)