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French and Francophone Studies Research
Our researchers
French and Francophone Studies
![Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Ozouf.png?itok=lHueWC34)
Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato
![Marie-Andrée Bergeron](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-08/Marie-Andree.jpg?itok=eegyrrKq)
Marie-Andrée Bergeron
![K. Sélom Gbanou](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Gbanou.png?itok=wt6_b3bU)
K. Sélom Gbanou
![Miao Li](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-05/miao-li.jpg?itok=9WiDEu16)
Miao Li
![Jean-François Richer](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Richer.png?itok=6bxEf_RS)
Jean-François Richer
![Devika Vijayan](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Devika%20Vijayan.png?itok=agOjFBBf)
Devika Vijayan
Research areas
Ozouf Sénamin Amedegnato
Associate Professor:
Second language teaching, sociolinguistics, linguistics-literature interface, Émile Benveniste
Marie-Andrée Bergeron
Associate Professor:
Québec literature and culture, Québec intellectuals in the 1960s and 70s, feminism, post-colonialism
Cyrielle Faivre
Assistant Professor:
19th century French literature, prisons and penal colonies, literature and visual arts, neurodiversity in French literature and culture, French and Francophone contemporary pop culture.
K. Sélom Gbanou
Professor:
French language, Francophone African literature, cinema and theatre, post-colonial studies, literary theory
Miao Li
Limited-term Instructor:
18th - Century France, Language Pedagogy
Jean-François Richer
Associate Professor:
French language, 19th - century French literature, Honoré de Balzac
Devika Vijayan
Assistant Professor:
French language, French 17th - and 18th - century travel literature, Jesuit writings on India and Canada