Faculty & Research

Chair, Department of French & Francophone Studies

Prof. Caroline Durand
Email: carolinedurand@trentu.ca
Office: EC S103
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 7109
Areas of teaching and research: https://www.trentu.ca/history/faculty-research/caroline-durand

Full-Time Faculty

Prof. Sylvie Bérard 
Email: sberard@trentu.ca
Office: EC N120
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 7383
Areas of teaching and research: Semiotics and Discourse Analysis; Gender and Queer Studies; Creative Writing; Franco-Canadian Literature; Science Fiction; Indigenous Literature.
Website: https://sylvieberard.net/

Prof. Isabelle Fournier
Email: isabellefournier@trentu.ca
Office: CC G3
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6357
Areas of teaching and research: Quebec Studies ;Quebec Literature; Écocritique; Science Fiction; Translation.

Prof. Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard
Email: jmathieulessard@trentu.ca
Office: CC G3
Areas of teaching and research: 20th and 21st century Quebec and French literatures, literary humour, women’s humour, women’s literature, music and literature

Prof. James Penney 
Email: jamespenney@trentu.ca
Office: TC SH 205
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6075
Areas of teaching and research: Critical cultural theory, especially psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan); Comparative world literature (esp. 20th and 21st century French and Francophone);  Film and visual studies; Marxism; Gender and sexuality.

Prof. Catalina Sagarra (on sabbatical leave in fall 2022 winter 2023)
Email: catalinasagarra@trentu.ca
Office: EC N121
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 
Areas of teaching and research: Second Language Acquisition; French Didactics; Neuroeducation; Genocide Studies; Semiotics; Interpretative Semantics.

Part-Time Faculty

Dr. Vinciane Boudonnet
Email: vincianeboudonnet@trentu.ca

Dr. Elena Naylor
Email: enaylor@trentu.ca

Dr. Mashal Riaz
Email: mashalriaz@trentu.ca