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Frenand Léger

Associate Professor (Teaching Stream)

• B.Ed. Language Education (UniQ), M.A. Applied Linguistics (Indiana University) and Ph.D. French studies (University of Toronto).
• 1615 Dunton Tower, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
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Office Hours: Mon./Wed. 13:15 to 14:15

Biography

Frenand Léger holds academic credentials in Education Sciences, Linguistics, and Literature. He earned a master’s degree in applied linguistics from Indiana University in 2005, a PhD from the University of Toronto in 2016 and joined �Ӱ�ԭ�� University’s Department of French that same year. He is a founding member of the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen and currently serves as a visiting professor of Haitian Studies at Florida International University.

His research spans three primary fields (literature, educational linguistics, & sociolinguistic) and takes an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. He explores the intersections of language, culture, ideology, identity, and politics in Haiti and other former Caribbean colonies. His literary research centers on issues of language, identity, and orality in fictional narratives from the Francophone Caribbean. Léger’s forthcoming book on Francophone literature analyzes works by key Haitian novelists and short story writers from the 19th century to today. The book aims to highlight the impact of Haitian literature on Francophone writers from the global South, especially in the Caribbean and Africa.

He has published numerous scholarly articles on Haiti’s sociolinguistic landscape and Haitian literature. His work has appeared in journals and edited volumes published by leading academic presses such as Cambridge University Press, University of Toronto Press, Laval University Press, and University Press of Florida. He is also the sole author and co-author of a series of French and Haitian-Creole language textbooks for higher education that aligns with the Council of Europe’s action-oriented approach.

Research Interests

• Creolistics and Haitian studies
• Theory of short story (Théorie de la nouvelle littéraire)
• Theory of the lodyans (a distinctive type of narrative genre originated from Haiti)
• Interactions between Creole orality and French writing in Haitian francophone novels and short stories from 19th-century to the present day (Ignace Nau, Justin Lherisson, Ida Faubert, Gary Victor, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and Dany Laferrière)
• French and Haitian Creole teaching methodology; working on the creation of a series of advanced Kreyòl and French textbooks (A1, A2, B1, B2) that follow the Action-Oriented Approach of the CEFR.

2025-2026 Courses

• FREN 2100A (Fall/Winter)
• FREN 2110A (Fall/Winter)

Books:

• Léger, F. Histoire, esthétique et théorie de la fiction brève de tradition haïtienne : De la nouvelle et du lodyans littéraire (Forthcoming).
• Léger, F. et al. Antoloji kritik woman ki ekri nan lang ������ò�� ayisyen an (Forthcoming)
• 2021. Ignace Nau. . Edited, introduced and annotated by Frenand Léger, Port-au-Prince, Legs Edition, 211 p.
• 2014. Ignace Nau. . Introduced and annotated by Frenand Léger, Port-au-Prince, Legs Edition, 114 p.
• 2007. . Project director, Albert Valdman. Indiana University Creole Institute: Bloomington, Indiana, pp. 781 (Editorial assistant).

Textbooks:

• Léger, F. et al. La francophonie en action: Utilisateur indépendant A1, Canadian Scholars Press, (Forthcoming).
• Léger, F. et al. La francophonie en action: Utilisateur indépendant A2, Canadian Scholars Press, (Forthcoming).
• Léger, F. et al. La francophonie en action: Utilisateur indépendant B2, Canadian Scholars Press, (Forthcoming).
• Léger, F. et al. Mizik lakay: Upper intermediate Haitian-Creole Language and Culture through popular song lyrics (Forthcoming).
• 2025. Léger, F. et al. Literati lakay: Advanced Haitian-Creole Language and Culture through literary texts, Montreal: BouquinBec, 335 p.
• 2024. Léger, F. et al. , Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 254 p.
• 2018. Léger, F. (Second edition). Coconut Creek, Florida: Educa Vision Press, 475 p.

Recent publications:

Recent articles and book chapters:

Chapters in Peer-reviewed Edited Books

• Léger, F. « Brouillage des frontières discursives dans Romancero aux étoiles de Jacques Stephen Alexis » in the International Conference Proceedings « Revisiter l’œuvre et la pensée de Jacques Stephen Alexis », École Normale Supérieure State University of Haiti, held in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 21-22, 2022 (Forthcoming, 2025).
• 2025. Léger, F. « Le statut d’Haïti dans la francophonie-monde : Paradoxe, mythe et réalité », in Louis Hervé Ngafomo et Thierry Léger (eds.), Paris, Connaissances et Savoirs, 2025.
• 2024. Léger, F. « » in Marlene L. Daut and Kaiama L. Glover (eds.), , Cambridge University Press, 2024, 214-230.
• Léger, F. « Haitian Creole in Migration Contexts: the case of The Bahamas » in Charmane M. Perry and Ermitte Saint Jacques (eds.), Navigating Nation, Anchoring Identities: Diaspora, Citizenship, and Belonging in The Bahamas, an edited volume to New World Diaspora series edited by Kevin Yelvington, University Press of Florida (Forthcoming, 2024).
• 2021. Léger, F. « », in Govain R. (eds.), , Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, 2021, pp. 161-175.
• 2020. Léger, F. « Réflexions sur la situation linguistique en Haïti : entre propagande et discours scientifique » in Reinke Kristin (eds.), , de la CEFAN, Presses de l’Université Laval, Collection :Culture française d’Amérique, 2020, pp. 263-300.
• 2013. Léger, F. « ». In Govain R. (eds.), Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen : Ki pwoblèm, Ki avantaj, Ki defi, Ki avni? Port-au-Prince: State University of Haiti Press, pp. 213-230.

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

• 2024. Léger, F. « ».&�Բ�����;Pawòl ������ò��, Revi literè Sosyete Koukouy, Montreal, Vol. 6, 2024, pp. 40-53.
• 2019. Léger, F. « », in Manuel Meune, Katrin Mutz et Charlotte Schallié (éd.)  numéro spécial de la Revue transatlantique d’études suisses, University of Montreal, No. 8/9, 2018/19, pp. 191-208.
• 2016. Léger, F. « ».&�Բ�����;Revue Legs et littératures, Port-au-Prince, No. 9, pp. 33-52.
• 2015. Léger, F. « ».Pawòl ������ò��, Revi literè Sosyete Koukouy, Montreal, Vol. 4, 2015, pp. 71-112.
• 2013. Léger, F. « ».Pawòl ������ò��, Revi literè Sosyete Koukouy, Montreal, Vol. 3, 2013, pp. 191-205.
• 2010. Léger, F. .Journal of Haitian Studies, UC Santa Barbara, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 74-90.
• 2009. Léger, F. Armbrister, A. P. .The College of The Bahamas Research Journal, Vol. 15, pp. 22-35.

Selected book reviews in peer-reviewed journals

• 2023. Léger, F. « ». Cambridge, s. la dir. de Elizabeth Brunazzi, Denizé Lauture et Eddy Toussaint (Tontongi), Trilingual Press, Tanbou, Nimewo otòn 2023.
• 2022. Léger, F. « ». Archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, New York: Digital Scholarship at Columbia University, Issue 6, May 2022.
• 2017. Léger, F. « . » Présence Francophone, Revue internationale de langue et de littérature, no. 81, Lettres canadiennes, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 86, No. 3, 416-419.
• 2014. Léger, F. Hibbert, Fernand. trad. Into English by Robertshaw Matthew, Québec: Deux Voiliers Publishing. Journal of Haitian Studies, UC Santa Barbara, Vol. 20, No. 1, 120-125.
• 2013. Léger, F. s. la dir. de Lysette Brochu, Jean Malavoy et Claire-Marie Bannier, Lettres canadiennes, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 3, 808-812.

Selected peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters:

• Léger, F. « Réflexions sur les causes du sous-développement de la littérature créolophone d’Haïti » in Marlene L. Daut and Kaiama L. Glover (eds.), A Cambridge History of Haitian Literature, Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming).
• Léger, F. « The sociolinguistic situation of Haitian Creole in The Bahamas: status, usage, perception, and education » in Charmane M. Perry and Ermitte Saint Jacques (eds.), Navigating Nation, Anchoring Identities: Diaspora, Citizenship, and Belonging in The Bahamas, an edited volume to New World Diaspora series edited by Kevin Yelvington, University Press of Florida (Forthcoming).
• Léger, F. « Le statut d’Haïti dans la francophonie-monde: Paradoxe, mythe et réalité », in Léger T., Ngafomo L. H., et Panaite O. (eds.), Champs Littéraires et langues de la francophonie-monde, (Forthcoming).
• Léger, F. « Brouillage des frontières discursives dans Romancero aux étoiles de Jacques Stephen Alexis » in the International Conference Proceedings « Revisiter l’œuvre et la pensée de Jacques Stephen Alexis », École Normale Supérieure State University of Haiti, held in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 21-22, 2022 (Forthcoming).
• Léger, F. « Analiz fòmèl lodyans Maurice Sixto Lea Kokoye ak J’ai vengé la race ».Pawòl ������ò��, Revi literè Sosyete Koukouy, Montreal, (Forthcoming).
• Léger, F. «  », in Govain R. (eds.), , Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, 2021.
• Léger, F. « » in Reinke Kristin (eds.), , de la CEFAN, Presses de l’Université Laval, Collection : Culture française d’Amérique, 2020.
• Léger, F. « », in Manuel Meune, Katrin Mutz et Charlotte Schallié (éd.)  numéro spécial de la Revue transatlantique d’études suisses, University of Montreal, No. 8/9, 2018/19, pp. 191-208.
• Léger, F. « ».&�Բ�����;Revue Legs et littératures, Port-au-Prince, No. 9, pp. 33-52.
• Léger, F. « ».Pawòl ������ò��, Revi literè Sosyete Koukouy, Montreal, Vol. 4, 2015, pp. 71-112.
• Léger, F. « ». In Govain R. (eds.), Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen : Ki pwoblèm, Ki avantaj, Ki defi, Ki avni? Port-au-Prince: State University Press of Haiti, pp. 213-230.
• Léger, F. « ».Pawòl ������ò��, Revi literè Sosyete Koukouy, Montreal, Vol. 3, 2013, pp. 191-205.
• Léger, F. .Journal of Haitian Studies, UC Santa Barbara, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 74-90.
• Léger, F. Armbrister, A. P. .The College of The Bahamas Research Journal, Vol. 15, pp. 22-35.

Selected book reviews in peer-reviewed journals:

• Léger, F. « ». Archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, New York: Digital Scholarship at Columbia University, Issue 6, May 2022.
• Léger, F. « . » Présence Francophone, Revue internationale de langue et de littérature, no. 81, Lettres canadiennes, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 86, No. 3, 416-419.
• Léger, F. Hibbert, Fernand. trad. Into English by Robertshaw Matthew, Québec: Deux Voiliers Publishing. Journal of Haitian Studies, UC Santa Barbara, Vol. 20, No. 1, 120-125.
• Léger, F. s. la dir. de Lysette Brochu, Jean Malavoy et Claire-Marie Bannier, Lettres canadiennes, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 82, No. 3, 808-812.

Encyclopedia articles

• 2025. Léger, F. « La nouvelle littéraire en Haïti ». Dictionnaire encyclopédique d’Haïti. Ed. Jacky Lumarque and Guy Maximilien, Port-au-Prince, PressUniQ, 2025.
• 2025. Léger, F. « L’histoire de la presse en Haïti ». Dictionnaire encyclopédique d’Haïti. Ed. Jacky Lumarque and Guy Maximilien, Port-au-Prince, PressUniQ, 2025.

Articles in major national newspapers and specialized websites

• 2020. Léger, F. . In Littérature haïtienne @ Siteweb Île-en-île, december 2020.
• 2015. Léger, F. . In Littérature haïtienne @ Siteweb Île-en-île, avril 2015.
• 2015. Léger, F. « » In AlterPresse, May 25, 2015.
• 2013. Léger, F. ? In Jounal Bon Nouvèl, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, No. 503, 12-13, March 2013.
• 2013. Léger, F. In Le Nouvelliste, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 20 2013, 26-29.
• 2013. Léger, F. « » In Potomitan, november 2013.
• 2013. Léger, F. . In Littérature haïtienne @ Siteweb Île-en-île, september, 2013.
• 2013. Léger, F. . In Littérature haïtienne @ Siteweb Île-en-île, december 2013.
• 2012. Léger, F. Haïti-Bahamas : . In AlterPresse, June 6, 2012.
• 2011. Léger, F. In AlterPresse, October 29, 2011.

Scholarships/Grants :

• 2025: The CU-CUASA Special Fund for EDI Research and Pedagogical Innovation Award, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
• 2025: The FUSION Skills Development Fund (FSDF), �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
• 2015: University of Toronto Doctoral Completion Award ($10,000)
• 2013-2015:Research Travel Grant from the University of Toronto ($4,000)
• 2015-2016:Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) from the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and universities, Canada ($15,000 annually for 1 year)
• 2012-2014:Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canada ($40,000)
• 2011-2012:Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) from the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and universities, Canada ($15,000 annually for 1 year)
• 2010-2014: University of Toronto Fellowship ($23,500 annually for 4 years)
• 2008-2010:Money grant of $8,000 by the Office of Research, Graduate Programmes & International Relations at The College of The Bahamas for the period of 2008-2010 to design a set of teaching and learning materials (textbook and audio CDs) for Haitian Creole courses at the college level.