The Department of French and Spanish has special research
strengths in several areas
including 20th-century French and French-Canadian literature,
semiotics, narratology, modern literary theory and emblematics.
Approaches are many and varied, ranging from the traditional to
computer-assisted research and learning. Members of the department
are active researchers in every aspect of French literature, from
the medieval to the present, in peninsular Spanish (especially
the medieval period), French (metropolitan and other), and Franco-Canadian
culture.
BISHOP, Neil Professor
Keywords
• French-Canadian literature and civilization
Current research
• Anne Hébert
• Québec science fiction
• The "other" in French-Canadian literature
Past research
• Anne Hébert
• Foreign and ethnic characters in French-Canadian literature
• Literary translation
Potential research
• Any area of French-Canadian literature
• Translation theory
CHADWICK, Anthony Professor
Keywords
• Jaques Lacan; Alain Robbe-Grillet; Jean-Paul Sartre; Psychoanalysis
Research specialty
• Twentieth-century French novel
Current research
• Jaques Lacan
• Bibliography of Alain Robbe-Grillet
• Concept of intimacy: 18th century to the present
Past research
• Fantastic in Robbe-Grillet
• Novels of Jean-Paul Sartre
Potential research
• Interdisciplinary studies
• Psychoanalysis and the study of literature
GAMBLE, D. R. Associate professor
Keywords
• French poetry; French and drama; comparative literature;
aesthetics of art and literature
Research specialty
• Manifestations of classicism and romanticism in western
European literature and art
Current research
• The work of Alfred de Musset
• The oeuvre of André Chénier
• E.D. de Forges de Parny and other French poets of the 18th
century
Past research
• Various papers, articles, and essays on 19th- and 20th
century French poetry and drama
Potential research
• French theatre of the 20th - century, Jean Giraudoux, Henri
de Montherlant
• Eighteenth - and nineteenth-century drama and dramatic
theory
GRAHAM, David Professor
Keywords
• French emblem books: computer-assisted humanities research
and teaching
Current research
• Image-text relationship in 16th-century French emblem corpus
Past research
• Computer hypertext
Potential research
• Novels by Michel Tournier and Claude Simon
HARE, John Associate professor
Keywords
• Renaissance; France; Montaigne
Current research
• Intermediate and advanced French grammar; traductology
Past research
• Language teaching methodology
• The Songe sequence of Joachim du Bellay
• Delvaille's Histoire de L'idée du progrès
HARGER-GRINLING, Virginia A. Professor
Keywords
• Modern French novel; Quebec; Fantastic
Current research
• Bibliography of Alain Robbe-Grillet, second edition
• Fantastic in Anne Hébert
• Alain Robbe-Grillet: biography and imagery
Past research
• Violence in the Canadian novel (and others)
• Collection of articles on the fantastic in Alain Robbe-Grillet
Potential research
• Biography of Alain Robbe-Grillet
Other research and consulting
• Translation and interpretation for provincial, national
and international organizations
• Research in health and fitness
JAMIESON, Scott (see French and Spanish and Sir Wilfred Grenfell College)
LEMELIN, Jean-Marc Professor
Keywords
• Literary theory; linguistics; semiotics; pragmatics; psychoanalysis;
philosophy; prehistory
Current research
• Theory of enunciation
• Origin of language
• Prehistoric art
• Origin of man
Past research
• Theory of literature
• Theory of language
• Theory of rhythm
Potential research
• Metapsychology, grammar and prehistory of language
MACDONALD, Aileen Ann Professor
Keywords
• Old French; Old Occitan literature and linguistics; French
women authors
Current research
• Scholarly edition of Rouergue's passion parallel, translated
to modern French
• Female Troubadours or Trobairitz, a study
Past research
• Scholarly edition of La Passion Catalane-Occitnace, Droz
1999
MACLEAN, James Associate professor
Keywords
• French literature; Renaissance; Enlightenment; human rights;
Postel; Bodin; Casteleioa; Bayle; Voltaire; Rousseau
Research specialty
• French studies, especially French philosophical literature
of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, in particular aspects
of human rights in literature
Current research
• The debate on tolerance in contemporary French thought
Past research
• Human rights philosophies among (e.g., religious toleration,
rights of women) sixteenth-century French thinkers (e.g., Postel,
Casteléioà, Bodin)
• Human rights, the secular state in the works of 17th -
and 18th-century French thinkers (e.g., Bayle, Voltaire, Rousseau)
• Early French anthropology (Postel, Rousseau)
O'REILLY, Magessa Associate professor
Keywords
• Samuel Beckett; Quebec
Research specialty
• Samuel Beckett, manuscripts
• Quebec civilization
Current research
• Samuel Beckett: How it is Molloy
SALAMA, Messod Associate professor
Keywords
• Medieval; Ballads; Sephardim; oral literature
Research specialty
• Medieval and Golden age Spanish literature (ballad studies)
• Oral literature of the Sephardim
THAREAU, Anne Assistant professor
Keywords
• Cultural studies; didacyics of languages and cultures;
French as a second language
Current research
• Lexiculture: encouraging students' cultural awareness through
the study of vocabulary correction and self correction of errors
in French language; second language learners
Past research
• Farming communities in French culture
• Computerized phonetics exercises for the multimedia lab
Potential research
• Non-governmental development agencies in Francophone Africa
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