Program Coordinator, French & Francophone Studies
Sylvie Bérard (FA 2025)
Associate Professor
Email: sberard@trentu.ca
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/
Catalina Sagarra (WI 2026)
Associate Professor
Email: catalinasagarra@trentu.ca
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 7527
Research Interests: Second Language Acquisition; French Didactics; Neuroeducation; Genocide Studies; Semiotics; Interpretative Semantics.
Full-Time Faculty
Caroline Durand
Professor
Email: carolinedurand@trentu.ca
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 7109
Research Interests: https://www.trentu.ca/history/faculty-research/caroline-durand
Isabelle Fournier
Assistant Professor
Email: isabellefournier@trentu.ca
Telephone: (705) 748-1011 ext. 6357
Research Interests: Quebec Studies ;Quebec Literature; Écocritique; Science Fiction; Translation.
James Penney
Professor
Email: jamespenney@trentu.ca
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.
Part-Time Faculty
Dr. Vinciane Boudonnet
Email: vincianeboudonnet@trentu.ca
Dr. Zishad Lak
Email: zishadlak@trentu.ca
Dr. Elena Naylor
Email: enaylor@trentu.ca
Past Projects with our Professors / Projets antérieurs de nos profs
28-10-2024 Une conversation entre l'autrice et interprète Natasha Kanapé Fontaine et la professeure Sylvie Bérard, de l'Université Trent. Enregistré sur zoom le 28 octobre 2024 pour le cours FREN 3238H: Littératures autochtones de langue française au Canada.
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