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Marie-Catherine Allard graduated with a聽 PhD in Cultural Mediations here at 杏吧原创. She has the honour of being supervised by Dr. Sarah Casteel and is privileged to be working with Dr. James Casteel and Dr. Deidre Butler as her thesis committee members. Her dissertation, which is entitled 鈥淩emediating Memory: Narrating the Kindertransport in Literature and Popular Culture,鈥� focuses on the narratives of Karen Gershon, Ruth Barnett, and Frank Meisler. In her work, she explores the ways in which the Kinder鈥檚 numerous retellings of their evacuation and remediation from one medium or literary genre to another foster the reconfiguration of their Kindertransport experience. Marie-Catherine has been awarded the Andras Memorial Award to support her research on the artistic representation of the Kindertransport, the rescue operation which allowed, before the outbreak of World War II, for the relocation of ten thousand children at risk of deportation from Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Danzig mainly to Great Britain.

Marie-Catherine graduated from Bishop鈥檚 University with a Bachelor鈥檚 degree in Modern Languages with concentrations in German and Italian Studies and a Hispanic Studies Major. She then earned a M.A in World Literatures and Cultures at the University of Ottawa. By focusing on the Saussurian sign as well as on East German cinema, her Major Research Paper project challenges the official date of the opening of the Berlin wall by demonstrating that it artistically collapsed before 1989.

Research Interests

Global Holocaust Studies, Borderlands Narratives, Migration and Diaspora, Memory Studies, Lesser-used and Minority Languages, Self-Articulation and Performativity of Identity, and Phonetic and Morphology.

Peer-reviewed Publications

Allard, Marie-Catherine. ”The Era of the Uprooted Child Survivor,” Holocaust in Popular Culture. Eds. Mahitosh Mandal and Priyanka Das. Springer, 2020. (Forthcoming).

Allard, Marie-Catherine. ”Modelling Bridges between Past and Current Issues of Forced Migration: Frank Meisler鈥檚 Memorial Sculpture Kindertransport-The Arrival,” Jewish Historical Studies: Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, vol.51. Ed. Michael Berkowitz. University College London Press, April 2020. 86-104. Print.

Allard, Marie-Catherine. 鈥滾a repr茅sentation spatio-temporel d鈥檜n Berlin m茅lancolique dans: Les Ailes du d茅sir (Der Himmel 眉ber Berlin) 鈥滳onfetti 2 (2016). Eds. Alicia Niemann et Marie-Catherine Allard. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 2016. 77-95. Print.

Recent Conference Presentations

Allard, Marie-Catherine. 鈥�(Re)writing Survival Journeys: Narrating the Kindertransport in Literature and Popular Culture鈥� Third Annual Memory Studies Association Conference, MSA, June 22, 2019, Faculty of Philology, Complutense University of Madrid, ES.

Allard, Marie-Catherine. 鈥淓t si tradition rimait avec action: Frank Meisler et la repr茅sentation artistique du Kindertransport 鈥� Engager le dialogue-Savoirs-Soci茅t茅s: Prise de parole et dialogue : r茅tablir la confiance apr猫s la violence, Acfas (Association canadienne-fran莽aise pour l鈥檃vancement des sciences), May 27, 2019, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec en Outaouais, Gatineau, QC.

Allard, Marie-Catherine. 鈥淢odelling Bridges between Past and Current Issues of Forced Migration: Frank Meisler鈥檚 Memorial Sculpture Kindertransport-The Arrival鈥� The Kindertransport 80 Years On: Approaches to Kindertransport Research and Historiography, KT80, Jan.22, 2019, Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, London, UK. Conference Presentation.

Literary publications

Allard, Marie-Catherine, and 脡lisabeth Allard. 鈥漈able Ronde du Souvenir鈥� La Filiation d鈥橭scar聽 G茅linas et Yvonne Rheault: De 1658 脿 2017. Design Grafik. 2017.

Allard, Marie-Catherine. Vendre ou vendu? Prix de la cr茅ation Radio-Canada 鈥� La Violoncelliste. 2017.

Allard, Marie-Catherine. Le Cose invissibili ou L鈥橝rt d鈥檃ppr茅cier le monde diff茅remment.聽 Edilivre. 2016.

Allard, Marie-Catherine, and al. ODiaspora. University of Ottawa, 2015.