Work in Progress

Ozouf S. Amedegnato

Language politics in the country of Togo, and by extension, in West Africa

By using Togo as an example, this project will examine the specific sociolinguistic issues affecting many West-African countries today, in order to determine whether or not their language politics is ecological.

Afrique décadentiste: an essay on Togolese writers of the third generation

Kenneth Brown

"Curando d'estos caballos" and the Rhetoric of Sexual Self-Satisfaction

A critical edition of a new late 15th century Cancionero (Denmark, Royal Library Codex).

Dialogos contra a Cristiandade

Edition (co-authored with Robinson Ayala, graduate student), of this partially unedited mid-17th century Sephardic-authored novel.

How Jewish was Rembrandt's Jewish Bride ?

An article dealing with Rembrandt's painting "The Jewish Bride". The argument is that the portrait is of the Spanish-Jewish poet Miguel de Barrios and his wife Abigail Pina.

Oblate missionary poetry

A collection of poems written during the years 1845 - 1965 by French-speaking Oblate missionaries in Canada, to be published in an annotated critical edition.

Cultural Representations
of Aging

This book project examines the cultural discourses and literary practices that construct the meaning of age and aging for women. It includes how age is embedded in common linguistic usage.

Eileen Lohka

La femme en Isle de France (1721-1810)

Investigation on what memory (institutional, collective, literary) preserves of women's lives and contributions to the colonisation of l'Isle de France (Mauritius). Statistic, stereotype, myth; where is hidden " la femme de chair et d'os" ?

Prendre le roman par la queue : stratégies narratives chez Michel de Pure

A study on the relationships between narrative strategy, gender and notions of time and space in several mid-Seventeenth century French texts.

    Histoire(s) de famille(s)

  

Book on narratives of memory among Fransaskois (Francophones of Saskatchewan) based on 23 video-recorded testimonies by descendants of original French and Quebec settlers. This project is a follow-up to the SSHRC funded Pratiques culturelles de la Saskatchewan française project and is in collaboration with Radio-Canada Saskatchewan.
 

Member of the Scientific Committee. Invited to contribute several articles on francophone Western Canada for this encyclopaedia project based at Université Laval under the direction of Laurier Turgeon (Canada Research Chair in patrimoine studies at Université Laval) and Yves Bergeron (Professor in patrimoine et muséologie studies at UQAM).

Elizabeth Montes

Corporeal Imaginings in Latin American Women's Writing

The purpose of this project is to design a systematic theoretical approach to the study of the association between body and text in works by Latin-American women writers.

Dominique Perron

Les discours de l'énergie dans l'Ouest canadien

An analysis of the discursive strategies used by oil and gas companies in Alberta to propose a specific representation of their activities and of the Alberta identity.

Le froufrou d’une robe de soie:
The Soundscape of
Balzac’s Human Comedy

This research addresses a wide array of problems pertaining to sonorous
representations in literary prose; more precisely, it aims to analyze the
acoustic panorama of the Balzacian novel in order to define the soundscape of The Human Comedy.

Rachel Schmidt

Cervantes

This is a critical study of the loss of community and of the ethical issues facing exiles in the so called transnational world.

In certain modern texts, migration turns into a mythical journey that allows for the reinvention of society; in others, the marginal is a character representing solidarity in a world apparently empty of hope and emotion.

Poetry book related to El exilio y las ruinas but dealing with experiences in the land of asylum.

Web based archive that will contain artistic, social and political materials produced by Latin Americans in Canada.

Phonologie du français contemporain: usages, variétés et structure

Des pays d'en haut à l'Ouest canadien: variation et changement linguistique

Co-investigator with France Martineau (University of Ottawa) in a SSHRC-funded project dealing with the implantation and evolution of the French language in Western Canada and its links with "la vallée du Saint-Laurent."

Collaborating investigator, for the component Langue française et identité, in this CURA project led by the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface examining francophone communities in a minority language situation.

Musique, dessin et écriture dans l'oeuvre autobiographique de Louis-René des Forêts

This work is based on a series of articles published by A. Wall on the recently deceased French author along with current comparative work between the important arts of literature, music and painting.

This project deals with the ways in which painting portrays people who are using language in several ways (talking, reading, writing).

This project attempts to describe the "Salons" (collections of short written pieces which describe a specific painting) as a special way of "talking" about art, one with its own conventions, rules and rhetoric.

A study of some twelve unpublished correspondences between Reyes and Argentinian writers.

An edition of all the literary works of Torri to be published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica in its Letras Mexicanas series.

A study of José Juan Tablada in South America. To be published by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Echoes of Don Quixote in modern-day Central American Speech

This study proposes that even after 500 years after the encounter of the two worlds Salvadorans keep the same proverbs used in Spain in the XVI and XVII centuries.