Anthony J. Wall

I began teaching at the University of Calgary in July 1985 and since then have taught courses in French, Comparative Literature, German, and Political Science at our University. My current research studies the interrelations between words and images, beginning with Denis Diderot's Salons and continuing on, through Baudelaire and Stendhal, to contemporary literature. In 2001, I became a member of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative Le Soi et l'autre (http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/soietaut/); I also belong to the Research Group APPLA & CO (Approches Pragmatiques en Philosophie du Langage et de la Communication) at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris ; in 1993-1994 and 1997-98, I was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at University of Constance, Germany. Then in 1998, Visiting Professor at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil where I gave a Graduate Course in cultural semiotics Words and Images. In 2006, I co-organized a conference at the famous Centre Culturel International de Cerisy, in Normandy, France (Des pratiques coopératives). You can view the site of Cerisy at http://www.ccic-cerisy.asso.fr/CCIC.html

Freiburg in Breisgau (Germany), Besançon (France), McMaster University and the University of Toronto