University of Calgary
Department of French, Italian and Spanish
Staff Research Interests
| Department Member | Fields of Research and Specialization |
| Dr. Ozouf S. Amédegnato | Sociolinguistics; Semiology; Discourse Analysis; Language Pedagogy; Language and Subjectivity |
| Dr. Kenneth Brown | Spanish Golden-Age Literature; Catalan Baroque Literature; Sephardic Studies; Textual Criticism |
| Dr. Estelle Dansereau | French-Canadian and Québécois Literatures; Writing by Women; Representations of Aging; Gabrielle Roy; Comparative Literature |
| Postcolonial Studies; Theatre; Visual Arts; Francophone African Literature; Literary Theories | |
| Dr. Emily Gillen | Foreign Language Teaching Methods; Second Language Acquisition; Computer Assisted Language Learning |
| Dr. José Antonio Giménez Micó (Adjunct Professor) | Contact Zones; Cross-culturalism; Plurilingualism |
| Prof. Candelaria Konrad | Second Language Teaching and Methodologies; Latin American Culture; XIXth Century Mexican Literature |
| Dr. Eileen Lohka | International Francophone Literatures and Cultures; Second Language Acquisition; Creative Writing |
| Dr. Daniel Maher | French Seventeenth Century Literature; Préciosité; Narratology; Technology Enhanced Language Learning |
| Dr. Pierre-Yves Mocquais
| French Canadian Literature; Works of Hubert Aquin; Literary Genetics; Cultural Practices of the Francophones on the Canadian Prairies; French Literature of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance |
| Dr. Elizabeth Montes Garcés | Latin American Prose Fiction; Latin American Women Writers; Literature and Film in Latin America |
| Dr. Dominique Perron | Québec Theatre; Sociocritism; Bourdieu; Discourse Analysis |
| Honoré de Balzac; Relations among anthropology, architecture and literature; Domestic spaces in XIXth century French novels; XVIIIth and XIX century French literature and civilization | |
Spanish Golden Age Novel; Colonial Literature; Cross-Border Narratives; Spanish as a Second Language | |
| Dr. Rachel Schmidt
| Cervantes; Early-Modern Spanish Literature; Visual Arts and Literature; Literary Theory |
| Dr. Luis Torres
| Contemporary Spanish American Literature: Prose, Poetry and Theatre; Literary and Cultural Theories; Latin American and Spanish Exiles' Literature in Canada |
| Prof. Ana Val | Spanish Language Teaching; Web-Assisted Language Learning |
| Dr. Anthony J. Wall | Literary Theory and the Philosophy of Language; Contemporary French and Québécois Literatures; Eighteenth-Century France; Comparative Literature |
Professors Emeriti and Retired
| Prof. Nadia Anton | French Language Instruction; French Literature of the XXth century; Francophone Literature in the Maghreb and the Middle East (Egypt and Lebanon) |
| Anatole France; Esthetics; Literary practice | |
| Dr. Glen W. Campbell | Franco-Canadian Literature of the West (Louis Riel and Oblate missionary poetry); Eighteenth-Century French Literature (Alain-René Lesage) |
| 18th Century Studies; Gabrielle Roy | |
| Golden Age Theatre; La Celestina; Elizabethan Drama | |
| Dr. Brian Gill | Computer Assisted Language Learning; Narratology; Marguerite Yourcenar; French Surrealist Poetry |
French Naturalism | |
French Romantic Poetry | |
| Second Language Teaching; 18th Century Studies | |
| Second Language Teaching; Translation; French and French Canadian Children's Literature; Gabrielle Roy; Holocaust Memoirs | |
| Dr. Ruth Schürch-Halas
| French Language Instruction; German Language Instruction; Translation Studies; Nineteenth-Century France; Comparative Literature |
| Dr. Douglas C. Walker | French Phonology and Morphology; Old French; Canadian French; Romance and Historical Linguistics; Phonological Theory |
| Dr. Pauline Willis | 19th-Century French Literature; French Language Instruction; Steven Vizinczey |
| 19th and 20th Century Mexican Literature; Modernism; Literary Relations |