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A U.S.-based independent scholar and writer (Ph.D. Modern French Studies, MS Library Science, MFA Creative Nonfiction), for income I have worked as an editor and taught as an adjunct. For inspiration, I have drawn from both research and personal experience. On the academic front, my chapter “Paulette Dubé’s Novels Talon and Autant: Braiding together Western Canadian Cultures Using Surrealism and Magical Realism” is currently being submitted to academic presses as part of the book project Beyond Munro and Atwood: Other Voices in Canadian Women’s Writing, edited by Canadian professors Cristina Ruiz Serrano and Suzanne Hayman. In terms of creative nonfiction and the personal essay, my most recent publications are “My Inner Ms. Natural Fought with the Mirror; The Mirror Won,” Next Avenue, January 11, 2024, https://www.nextavenue.org/my-inner-natural-mirror-won/; and “Telling an Emotional Truth,” The Writer's Center Magazine, winter-spring 2024, 37-38, https://writer.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TWC-Magazine_WISP2024_fina....
Current research areas:
Literature, culture and history of Francophone Canada: intercultural, inter-lingual encounters. Translations as used in literary works. Creative nonfiction and personal essays.
Recent scholarly activity:
Chapter "Paulette Dubé’s Novels Talon and Autant: Braiding together Western Canadian Cultures Using Surrealism and Magical Realism” currently being submitted to academic presses as part of the book project Beyond Munro and Atwood: Other Voices in Canadian Women’s Writing, edited by Canadian professors Cristina Ruiz Serrano and Suzanne Hayman.
Recent publications:
"My Inner Ms. Natural Fought with the Mirror; The Mirror Won," Next Avenue, January 11, 2024, https://www.nextavenue.org/my-inner-natural-mirror-won/.
"Telling an Emotional Truth," The Writer's Center Magazine, winter-spring 2024, 37-38, https://writer.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TWC-Magazine_WISP2024_fina....
“Taché’s Voyageur Is Not Cooper’s Frontiersman: Differences Between Canadian and U.S. Concepts of 'Frontier,'” Comparative Literature Studies 59, no. 2 (May 2022), 370–401.
“‘Minor’ literature of an itinerant culture: Goulet, Campbell, and the Canadian Métis,” Contemporary French Civilization 45, no. 2 (2020), 143–64.
“Writing and Art in Activist Collaboration: A Métis Story of Resistance and Change,” The Independent Scholar 6 (Feb. 2020): 32–38
Forthcoming research:
Creative nonfiction, personal essays
Other activities:
Current NCIS board member, filling in as secretary due to an unplanned vacancy. Have also been helping out on an informal basis as needed and requested.