Program Coordinator, French & Francophone Studies
Caroline Durand
Professor
Email: carolinedurand@trentu.ca
Office: Lady Eaton College S114
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 7109
Research Interests: https://www.trentu.ca/history/faculty-research/caroline-durand
Full-Time Faculty
Sylvie Bérard
Associate Professor
Email: sberard@trentu.ca
Office: Lady Eaton College N120
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 7383
Research Interests: Semiotics and Discourse Analysis; Gender and Queer Studies; Creative Writing; Franco-Canadian Literature; Science Fiction; Indigenous Literature.
Website: https://sylvieberard.net/
Isabelle Fournier
Assistant Professor
Email: isabellefournier@trentu.ca
Office: Champlain College G3
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6357
Research Interests: Quebec Studies ;Quebec Literature; Écocritique; Science Fiction; Translation.
Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard
Assistant Professor
Email: jmathieulessard@trentu.ca
Office: Champlain College G3
Research Interests: 20th and 21st Century Quebec and French Literatures, Literary Humour, Women’s Humour, Women’s Literature, Music and Literature.
James Penney
Professor
Email: jamespenney@trentu.ca
Office: Traill College SH 205
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6075
Research Interests: Critical Cultural Theory, especially Psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan); Comparative World Literature, especially 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone; Film and Visual Studies; Marxism; Gender and Sexuality.
Catalina Sagarra (on sabbatical leave in fall 2022 winter 2023)
Associate Professor
Email: catalinasagarra@trentu.ca
Office: Lady Eaton College N121
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 7527
Research Interests: 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
Past Projects with our Professors / Projets Antérieurs de nos Profs
27-04-2021 ● Journée d'étude du Département d'études françaises et francophones: « Le rire pédagogue et le rire savant » (https://www.facebook.com/events/531574867809974)
27-04-2021 ● French and Francophone Studies Symposium: “Teacherly Laughter and Scholarly Laughter” (https://www.facebook.com/events/531574867809974)
15-04-2021 ● Appel à propositions: « Le rire pédagogue et le rire savant »: Journée d'étude du Département d'études françaises et francophones
15-04-2021 ● Call for proposals: “Teacherly Laughter and Scholarly Laughter”: French and Francophone Studies Symposium
16-06-2020 ● “Let’s Chat!” / « Conversons! »: Petit dictionnaire dialogué de la pandémie
23-06-2020 ● “Let’s Chat!” / « Conversons! »: La science-fiction, un genre contagieux
14-07-2020 ● “Let’s Chat!” / « Conversons! »: Adapting and adopting: Language and the pandemic
