Katherine Marchant
Student
Master of Arts in French (MA)
Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies
The Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies is a vibrant centre for the study of Romance languages, literatures and cultures. Our faculty is composed of a group of specialists whose expertise ranges from second language acquisition and linguistics, to literary and cultural studies
Our faculty is composed of passionate instructors and world-renowned scholars who are regularly recognized for excellence in research and teaching. Our literature and culture courses explore the abundant traditions of French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese cultures, both in their countries of origin, and in the cultures of diaspora, including Quebec and a wide variety of geographic areas such as Latin America, as well as the Caribbean, African and Asian countries.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Alvarez Moreno, Raul | Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literature and Culture (Celestina, picaresque novel, short story); Economy and Medieval Literature and Culture; Visual Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Spain; Relations between Language and Ideology; travel writing; Literary or Artistic Works Analysis, Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles, Artistic and Literary Theories, Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts, Language, Knowledge, Significance and Thought Building, Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literature and Culture (Celestina, picaresque novel, short story), Economy and Medieval Literature and Culture , Visual Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Spain, Relations between Language and Ideology, Travel Writing |
| Ayan, Irem | French language; Sociology of translation and interpreting; Gender and work exploitation; Emotional labour and work alienation; Fictional representations of translators and interpreters |
| Beasley-Murray, Jon | Latin American studies, social and political theory |
| Beauchesne, Kim | Colonialism; Latin America; Trans-Pacific Studies; Globalization; Colonialism, Latin America, Trans-Pacific Studies, Globalization |
| Boccassini, Daniela | Italian Verbal and visual arts, mediterranean cultural exchanges |
| Bouchard, Marie-Eve | Sociolinguistics; Linguistic Anthropology; ethnography; language ideologies; Language and identity; migration; Language variation and change; Language contact; Creole languages; Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnography, Language ideologies, Language and identity, Migration, Language variation and change, Language contact, Creole languages |
| Casas Aguilar, Anna | Contemporary literatures; Spanish Cultural Studies; Catalan Literature and Culture; Gender Studies; Masculinities; Feminisms; Self-writing; Hispanic Cinemas |
| Castonguay-Belanger, Joel | History of the book and print culture; Québec literature and culture; Science and literature; The Enlightenment and the French Revolution; History of the book and print culture, Québec literature and culture, Science and literature, The Enlightenment and the French Revolution |
| Fernandez Utrera, Maria Soledad | Peninsular contemporary literature and culture |
| Gelinas-Lemaire, Vincent | Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Comparative Literature; Creative Writing; French Literature (1945 to the present); Québec and French-Canadian Literature and Culture; Spatial Poetics; Visual Culture; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, French Literature (1945 to the present), Québec and French-Canadian Literature and Culture, Spatial Poetics, Visual Culture |
| Huberman, Isabella | Indigenous literatures; Environment, space and place; Quebec literatures; Indigenous Literature; Cinema of Quebec; Francophone Indigenous narrative arts; Environmental Humanities; Archives and cinema studies; Quebec-Indigenous studies; Decolonial and anticolonial theory; Research creation |
| Lagresa-González, Elizabeth | Languages and literature; Early modern Literature and Culture; Early Modern Drama; Early modern Visual and Material culture; Queer, Gender and Sexuality studies; Cross-cultural and Comparative studies |
| Laroussi, Farid | Literatures and Cultures in French; Literatures and Cultures in French |
| Mitchell, Tamara | Contemporary Mexican Literature and Culture; Neoliberalism, Globalization, (Post-)National Politics; Political Philosophy, Critical Theory; Border and Diaspora Studies; Contemporary Central American Literature and Culture; Digital Humanities; Sound Studies; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis, Artistic and Literary Theories, Political Ideologies, Contemporary Mexican Literature and Culture, Neoliberalism, Globalization, (Post-)National Politics, Political Philosophy, Critical Theory, Border and Diaspora Studies, Contemporary Central American Literature and Culture, Digital Humanities , Sound Studies |
| Moran, Patrick | Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; History of Major Eras, Great Civilisations or Geographical Corpuses; Popular Cultures Produced and Broadcasted by Media; Arthurian Romance; Cognitive Poetics; Comparative Medieval Literature; Genre Theory; Interactive Fiction; Material Philology; Medieval French Literature; Medieval Narrative Literature; Medievalism; Narrative Theory; Old French; Reader-Response Theory; Science Fiction and Fantasy; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity, History of Major Eras, Great Civilisations or Geographical Corpuses, Popular Cultures Produced and Broadcasted by Media, Arthurian Romance, Cognitive Poetics, Comparative Medieval Literature, Genre Theory, Interactive Fiction, Material Philology, Medieval French Literature, Medieval Narrative Literature, Medievalism, Narrative Theory, Old French, Reader-Response Theory, Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Piechocki, Katharina | Seventeenth-century French literature, Early modern French and Romance literature, Theater, opera, cartography, gender, affect, and translation studies |
| Salamon, Anne | Literatures in French outside Quebec; French language; Historical linguistics, diachronics, and dialectology; Romance Philology; Medieval French Litterature; Manuscript studies; History of the French language; Critical editing of medieval texts |
| Testa, Carlo | Italian literature, history of cinema, theory/film studies |
| Victoriano, Ramon Antonio | Caribbean literatures; Latin American literatures; Contemporary literatures; Hispanic Caribbean Literatures and Cultures; Latin American Contemporary Novel and Short Story; Caribbean Literatures |
| Zhang, Gaoheng | Migration Studies; Mobility Studies ; Cultural Studies; Food Studies; Fashion Studies ; Film and Media Studies; Gender and Masculinity Studies; Rhetoric and Communication Studies ; China-Italy Cultural Relations ; China-Africa-Europe Cultural Relations; Italy's Global Networks ; Modern and contemporary Italian literature and culture; Intercultural and Ethnic Relationships, Cultural Exchanges, Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges, Media and Society, Media Ethics, Media and Democratization, Migration Studies, Mobility Studies , Postcolonial Studies , Gender and Masculinity Studies, Race Theory, Film and Media Studies, Rhetoric and Communication Studies , Cultural Theory, Italian-Chinese relations , Italy's global networks , Modern and contemporary Italian literature and culture |
| Ziethen, Antje | African Literatures; Francophone Literatures and Cultures; Speculative fiction; (Urban) Space; Postcolonial Studies; Diaspora Studies; Transnationalism; Gender Studies; Modernity; African Literatures, Francophone Literatures and Cultures, Speculative Fiction, (Urban) Space, Postcolonial Studies, Diaspora Studies, Transnationalism, Gender Studies, Modernity |