{"id":290,"date":"2010-03-02T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:53:28","slug":"christine-duff","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/people\/christine-duff\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Duff"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Office Hours:<\/strong> TBC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2026-2027 Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>FREN 2202A (Fall)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FREN 3050A (Winter)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FREN 4212A (Fall)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the following year. My principle areas of interest are the literatures in French of the Caribbean and Africa, especially women\u2019s writing. In recent years, I have been drawn to writing of members of the Haitian diaspora in Qu\u00e9bec, with a focus on <em>vodou<\/em> mythology and on intertextuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I currently split my time between the French Department and the Institute of African Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The zombie figure in literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Caribbean literature in French<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>African literature in French (north and south of the Sahara)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Literary representation of psychic processes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vodou in literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Postcolonial literary theory<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intertextuality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Books:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>U<\/em><em>nivers intimes:&nbsp; pour une po\u00e9tique de la vie int\u00e9rieure au f\u00e9minin dans la litt\u00e9rature carib\u00e9enne<\/em>. New York : Peter Lang, 2008. Volume 17 in the Caribbean Studies Series (Tamara Alvarez-Detrell and Michael G. Paulson, eds.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStanley P\u00e9an\u2019s Intertextual <em>D\u00e9tours<\/em>&nbsp;: the Forest for the Trees.\u201d <em>Quebec Studies <\/em>69 (Spring\/Summer 2020) 89-108.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLire les r\u00e9seaux intertextuels dans la litt\u00e9rature qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise contemporaine\/Reading Intertextual Networks in Contemporary Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Literature\u201d, Introduction (with Catherine Khordoc), <em>Quebec Studies<\/em> 69 (Spring\/Summer 2020) 3-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEzili et Solitude \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al: mythologie des Am\u00e9riques et exp\u00e9rience f\u00e9minine dans <em>Le livre d&#8217;Emma<\/em> de Marie-C\u00e9lie Agnant.\u201d <em>Voix et images<\/em> 132 (Spring\/Summer 2019) 137-154.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhere Literature Fills the Gaps: Lawrence Hill\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Book of&nbsp;&nbsp;Negroes<\/em>&nbsp;as a Canadian Work of Re-Memory.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Studies in Canadian&nbsp;Literature\/\u00c9tudes en litt\u00e9rature canadienne&nbsp;<\/em>36:2 (2011) 237-254.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPour une relecture de&nbsp;<em>Zoune chez sa ninnaine&nbsp;<\/em>de Justin Lh\u00e9risson.\u201d Dans&nbsp;<em>Francophonie litt\u00e9raire du Sud&nbsp;: un divers singulier&nbsp;<\/em>. Sous la direction de Najib Redouane. Paris&nbsp;: L\u2019Harmattan, septembre 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLooking Back to Move Forward&nbsp;: The Counter-Poetics of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Journal of Caribbean Literatures&nbsp;<\/em>3.2 (Spring 2002)&nbsp;: 23-35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edited collections<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guest co-editor (with Catherine Khordoc), special dossier of <em>Quebec Studies <\/em>69&nbsp; (Spring\/Summer 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Claudia Labrosse. <em>Corps \u00e9crit, corps \u00e9crivant&nbsp;: le corps f\u00e9minin dans les litt\u00e9ratures francophones des Am\u00e9riques<\/em>. Bern: Peter Lang, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Recent Graduate Supervisions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serge Ekomo, MA French, 2018<br>\nResearch Essay, \u00ab&nbsp;L\u2019identit\u00e9 en question&nbsp;: travail de m\u00e9moire et qu\u00eate de l\u2019alt\u00e9rit\u00e9 comme modalit\u00e9s de reconstitution identitaire dans <em>Les Pieds sales<\/em> et <em>Explication de la nuit<\/em> d\u2019Edem Awumey&nbsp;\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lubuya Tshiswaka, MA French, 2016<br>\nResearch Essay, \u00ab&nbsp;La repr\u00e9sentation de la folie chez les personnages f\u00e9minins de <em>C\u2019est vole que je vole<\/em> de Nicole Cage-Florentiny et de <em>C\u2019est le soleil qui m\u2019a br\u00fbl\u00e9e <\/em>de Calixthe Beyala&nbsp;\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Omer Koumda, MA French, 2016<br>\nResearch Essay, \u00ab&nbsp;La question du pouvoir dans <em>La Gr\u00e8ve des b\u00e0ttu<\/em> d\u2019Aminata Sow Fall&nbsp;\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">M\u00e9lanie Martin (with Catherine Khordoc) &#8220;Femmes rebelles<i>: <\/i>la r\u00e9volte de la danseuse dans trois romans contemporains&#8221; (2013)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morgan Faulkner (with Catherine Khordoc) &#8220;Langue et m\u00e9moire dans&nbsp;<i>La femme aux pieds nus&nbsp;<\/i>de Scholastique Mukasonga&#8221; (2010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leah Roth &#8220;D&#8217;une femme \u00e0 l&#8217;autre: la transmission de la m\u00e9moire dans <i>Le Livre d&#8217;Emma <\/i>et <i>Corregidora<\/i>&#8221; (2009)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":10271,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Christine","cu_people_last_name":"Duff","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[21],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-290","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-associate-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. Hons. 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