CURRICULUM VITAE October 13, 2015 Name: Dr. Margot Irvine Department or School: School of Languages and Literatures Office Number: Mackinnon 280 Extension: 53182 Email: mirvine@uoguelph.ca A. Education 2000 Ph.D. Department of French and Collaborative Graduate Program in Women s Studies, University of Toronto 1993 M.A. Department of French, University of Toronto 1992 B.A. St. Michael s College, University of Toronto B. Academic Appointments 2009- Associate Professor, University of Guelph 2004-2009 Assistant Professor, University of Guelph C. Academic Appointments or Related Experience Prior to Appointment at the University of Guelph 2001-2004 Sessional Lecturer University of Toronto at Mississauga D. Awards, Honours, Grants Awards: Prize for the best scholarly book of 2008, awarded to Pour suivre un époux: Les récits de voyages des couples (Québec: Editions Nota bene, 2008) by the Association des professeurs-e-s de français des universités et des collèges canadiens / Canadian Association of University and College Teachers of French (APFUCC). Pour suivre un époux: Les récits de voyages des couples (Québec: Editions Nota bene, 2008) was a finalist for the Raymond Klibansky prize, awarded by the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences for the best scholarly work in French published in 2008 or 2009. Scholarships: 2011-14 SSHRC Standard Research Grant
Award: $35,090.00 Project: Juries, Prizes and Prestige: The Creation of the Prix Femina 2011-17 Participated in the application for a successful Erasmus-Mundus grant awarded by the European Commission s Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). The Crossways in Cultural Narratives consortium of 8 universities (Université de Perpignan, University of Guelph, University of Santiago de Compostela, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, University of Bergamo, University of Sheffield, Saint Andrews University) was one of 30 successful projects approved for funding in 2011 (out of 177 applicants). 2010 SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences Grant Award: $22,960.00 Project: Europe in its own eyes / Europe in the eyes of the Other. International Conference on European Identities, October 1-3, 2010. Co-applicant with Sandra Parmegiani. 2009 SSHRC Standard Research Grant 4A Ranking Research Enhancement Award, College of Arts University of Guelph, Award: $5,000 Project: The Creation of the Prix Femina 2008 Aid to Scholarly Publications Program, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Award: $7,000 Project: Publication subsidy for Pour suivre un époux: Les récits de voyages des couples (Québec : Éditions Nota bene, 2008). 2007 SSHRC Conference Travel Grant Award : $850.00 Conference : Nineteenth-Century French Studies Mobile, Alabama, USA. 2006 SSHRC Conference Travel Grant Award: $530.00 Conference: Francophone Women s Magazines Inside and Outside France, University of Surrey, U.K. 2006 SSHRC Standard Research Grant 4A Ranking Research Enhancement Award, College of Arts
University of Guelph, Award: $5,000 Project: The Creation of the Prix Femina 2005-06 SSHRC U of Guelph Research Council Grant Award: $2,500 Project: A Women s Academy? The Creation of the Prix Femina 1999-00 University of Toronto Dissertation Fellowship Award: $18,000 1997-99 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship Award: $15,000 per year 1994-96 Ontario Graduate Study Fellowship Award: $11,359 per year Teaching awards: 2014 University of Guelph Faculty Association Teaching Award 2013 College of Arts Teaching Excellence Award 1998-99 Senior Doctoral Teaching Associateship, University of Toronto 2. Teaching A. Undergraduate Course No. Title Semesters Taught FREN*1000 Understanding the F06 Francophone World FREN*1100 Basic French: Listening F05, W06, F06, W07 FREN*1200 French Language I F04, W05 FREN*2020 France: Literature and F08, W11 Society FREN*2030 French Language II F04, W15 FREN*2060 Quebec: Literature & W06, W07 (seminar leader) Society F12 (lecturer)
FREN*3000 Romanticism and Realism F05, F07, W09, W11, W13 in France FREN*3010 Twentieth-Century Novel W08 FREN*3560 Contemporary Women s W09 Writing FREN*4710 Seminar in French Literature: Women and Memory, from Colette to Arcan W14 FREN*4770 Independent Research Course F06, S07, F07, W08, S08, W09, S09, F09, W10, F10, W11, F12, W14 FREN*4750 Creative Writing in French S11, W13, F13 EURO*4070 Independent Research Course W07, F10, W11 ASCII*4770 Independent Research Course S09 UNIV*1200 Prizes in the Arts and Culture W15 (First-year seminar) 1b. Team-taught Courses Coordination: EURO*2200 European Culture, W05, W06, W07, W08, W09, W10, F10 1850-1920 F12, F13, F14, F15 Modules taught in: EURO*1200 European Culture, 4 classes, F04 to1800 10 classes, F05 7 classes, F06 7 classes, F07 6 classes, F08 ` 6 classes, F09 6 classes, F10 6 classes, F12 6 classes, F13 4 classes, W15 EURO*2300 European Culture, 6 classes, F04 1920- to present 7 classes, F05 7 classes, F06
7 classes, F07 5 classes, F08 6 classes, F09 6 classes, F10 6 classes, W13 6 classes, W14 3 classes, W15 EURO*3150 European Film 9 classes, W08 9 classes, W10 2 classes (5 hours), F15 B. Graduate 1. Courses FREN*6020 Topics in French Literature W07 FREN*6000 Research Methods in French Studies F08 FREN*6050 Independent Reading Course S09 (with Julia Scott, M.A. in French Studies) Topic: Écriture contemporaine des femmes et autofiction Independent Reading Course (with Brandon Carroll, M.A. in French Studies) Topic: La littérature décadente F12 EURO*6080 Directed Reading Course W10 (with Danielle Van Wagner, M.A. in Art History and Visual Culture) Topic: Women s Creative Genius and Madness: Camille Claudel and Séraphine de Senlis EURO*6080 Directed Reading Course W13 (with Jennifer Trommelen-Jones, M.A. in European Studies) Topic: The Katabatic Journey in European Literatures EURO*6080 Directed Reading Course W15 (with Erin Budra, M.A. in European Studies) Topic: Commemorating Women in the French Resistance
1b. Team-taught Courses Coordination: EURO*6030 Women and Cultural Institutions in Europe, W13, F14 1850-2000 EURO*6030 Women and the Arts in Europe: F07 Seeking Expression EURO*6000 SoLaL Graduate Research F09, F10, F13 LACS*6000 Methods course FREN*6000 Modules taught in: EURO*6010 EURO*6000 European Identities: Core Seminar 1 (3 hour) class, F07, W13, W14 European Studies, Research Methods Course 1 (3 hour) class, F07, F08 EURO*6020 Myth, Fairytales and 1 (3 hour) European class, W09, Identities W11, W14, F15 FREN*6000 French Studies, Research Methods Course 1 (3 hour) class, F12 2. Other Teaching Activities Member, Ph.D. Thesis committee of Evguenia Timoshenkova, University of Toronto (French Studies) Advisor: Dr. Roland Le Huenen Title of thesis: L art de la description et la description de l art dans les Voyages de Théophile Gautier. Degree awarded : February 2014 Supervisor, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Julia Scott (French Studies) Title of thesis: Entre l autobiographie et l autofiction: Les traces d autofiction dans Putain et Folle de Nelly Arcan Degree awarded : September 2009
Supervisor, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Sarah Covey (European Studies) Title of thesis: Adaptations of Victor Hugo s Les Misérables Degree awarded: June 2010 Supervisor, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Sarah Al-Harbi (French Studies) Title of thesis: Une Étude de la réception de la poésie d Émile Nelligan Degree awarded : February 2011 Supervisor, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Hilary Pritchard (European Studies) Title of thesis: A Female Naturalist: Mme Georges de Peyrebrune Degree awarded: February 2011 Second reader, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Danielle Van Wagner (M.A. Art and Visual Culture) Title of MA Thesis: Printed with National Ink: Post-9/11 Representations of the Self and Other on the Covers of Time Advisor : John Potvin M.A. Completed: June 2011 Supervisor, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Lydia Bryce (French Studies) Title of thesis: Une Vague dans la mer: Musique, histoire et fiction dans Suite française par Irene Nemirovsky M.A. Completed : November 2011 Second reader, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Josée Van Wissen (European Studies) Subject of thesis: Irony as social commentary in Madame de Villeneuve s La Belle et la bête Degree awarded: November 2012 Supervisor, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Kylee Erwin (French Studies) Title of thesis: Louise Cruppi, femme de letters Degree awarded: November 2013
Supervisor, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Jennifer Trommelen-Jones (European Studies) Title of thesis: The Katabatic Journey as Social Critique in Balzac and Dumas Degree expected: November 2013 Co-supervisor, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Brandon Carroll (French Studies) Title of thesis: La figure du monstre dans le roman décadent Degree awarded : November 2013 (Revised version of thesis accepted for publication in the refereed journal Arena Romanistica) Supervisor, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Karine Brière (French Studies) Title: La France de Ségur et Fleuriot : Changer ou faire perpétuer les rôles sociaux à travers le roman de jeunesse? Degree awarded: February 2015 Supervisor, M.A. Thesis University of Guelph Erin Budra (European Studies) Working Title: Commemorating Women in the French Resistance Supervisor, M.A. Thesis Crossways in Cultural Narratives Emma Cooper Working Title: Painting For Her Life: The Independence of the Female Artist in George Sand s Elle et Lui and Anne Brontë s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 3. Scholarly and Creative Activity A. Publications Book: Pour suivre un époux: Les récits de voyages des couples. Québec : Éditions Nota bene, 2008. Edited Book : Risques et regrets. Les dangers de l écriture épistolaire (with Karin Schwerdtner and Geneviève De Viveiros), Montréal, Éditions Nota bene, 2015.
Chapters in books (refereed): ««On colonise par la femme et non par le fusil» : Raymonde Bonnetain au Soudan (1892)» in Regard littéraire des Européennes en voyage, Afrique, Orient, s. la dir. de Elodie Gaden et Romuald Fonkoua, Paris, Éditions Garnier. [forthcoming] «Un réseau de femmes journalistes : Les collaboratrices aux Matinées espagnoles» in Masculin/ Féminin dans la presse du 19 e siècle, s.la.dir.de Christine Planté et Marie-Ève Thérenty, Presses universitaires de Lyon, coll. «Des deux sexes et autres». [forthcoming] «Une génération de transition : Judith Cladel, femme de lettres (1873-1958)», in Passées sous silence. Onze femmes écrivains à relire. s. la dir. de Patrick Bergeron, Paris, Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes, 2015. 59-74. ««Des liens de confraternité?»: Friendships and Factions on the Jury of the Prix Femina (1904-1964)» in Solidaires, Solitaires, eds. Elise Hugueney-Leger and Caroline Verdier, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. 137-150. ««et je serais désireux de l avoir, cette collaboration féminine» : Goncourt, Daudet, Bonnetain et la collaboration littéraire des femmes», in La Littérature en bas-bleus : Les romancières en France de 1870-1914, vol. III, s. la dir. de Brigitte Louichon et Andrea Del Lungo, Paris, Éditions Garnier. [Submitted] Re-reading Early Prize Winners: the 1904 Prix Goncourt and Prix Vie heureuse, in Re-reading / La relecture: Essays in honour of Graham Falconer, Eds. Rachel Falconer and Andrew Oliver, Newcastle-upon- Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 153-165. The role of women s magazines in the creation of the Prix Vie heureuse, Francophone Women s Magazines: Inside and Outside France. Ed Annabelle Cone. New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2010. 23-31. «Une occasion de bonheur : le prix Femina de 1947», in L Echo de nos classiques : Bonheur d occasion et Two Solitudes en traduction, ed. Agnès Whitfield. Ottawa : Éditions David, 2009, 61-70. Marcelle Tinayre s Notes d une voyageuse en Turquie : Creating Solidarity Among Women, A Belle Epoque? Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture, 1890-1910, eds. Diana Holmes and Carrie
Tarr, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. 295-306. Articles (refereed): «Les Collaborations littéraires de Julia Daudet, doyenne du Prix Femina», Le Petit Chose : Bulletin de l Association des Amis d Alphonse Daudet, 4 e série, no 101, 2012, 75-85. «Une Académie de femmes?». @nalyses, Collectifs, Femmes de lettres. 2008-07-21. http://www.revue-analyses.org/document.php?id=1134 Spousal Collaborations in Naturalist Fiction and in Practice in Nineteenth-century French Studies. volume 37.1-2, Fall-Winter 2008, 67-80. Jane Dieulafoy s Gender Transgressive Behaviour and Conformist Writing, Working Papers on Contemporary France (University of Portsmouth, UK), vol. 4, 1999, 13-23. «Le récit de voyage au féminin», Québec Français, No. 112, Hiver 1999, 69-71. «Problèmes de genre(s): le récit de vocation et le récit de voyage au féminin dans les Souvenirs d Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun», Itinéraires du XIXe siècle, éds. Paul Perron, Roland Le Huenen, Stéphane Vachon, Toronto : Centre d études Romantiques Joseph Sablé, 1996, 75-86. Critical bibliography (refereed) : Female Recipients of Major French Literary Prizes (1903-2004), Women in French Newsletter, Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring, 2006. 14-20. Articles (non refereed) : Other: «Ourika et les traditions des littératures anti-esclavagistes», La Marge : Actes du sixième colloque de la Société des Études Supérieures, eds. Fabienne Baider, Erika Friesen, Anthony Watanabe, Toronto : Editions SESDEF, 1997, 8-26 «Présentation : Femmes et mémoire» (with Dawn Cornelio and Karin Schwerdtner), Special issue of Women in French Studies, 2015. 11-13. «Introduction : Risques et regrets. Les dangers de l écriture épistolaire» (with Karin Schwerdtner and Geneviève De Viveiros), Montréal, Éditions Nota bene, 2015. 5-17.
«Presentation : Les réseaux des femmes de lettres au XIXème siècle», in @nalyses, printemps-été, 2008. «Presentation : Didactique des langues et des littératures», coauthored with Frédérique Arroyas and Éliane Lousada, Synergies Canada, No.1 (2009) «Présentation : Les Documents authentiques en didactique et en littérature», co-authored with Frédérique Arroyas and Éliane Lousada. Synergies Canada, No. 2 (2010). «Présentation : Représentations des identités européennes», coauthored with Frédérique Arroyas and Éliane Lousada, Synergies Canada, No. 3 (2011). «Présentation : Saisir l intermédialité : constructions et réceptions», co-authored with Frédérique Arroyas and Éliane Lousada. Synergies Canada, No. 4 (2012). «Présentation : Apprentissage par l action et perspective actionnelle pour l enseignement des langues», co-authored with Frédérique Arroyas and Éliane Lousada, Synergies Canada, No. 5 (2013). Editorial work : «Femmes et mémoire», Special Issue, Women in French Studies, 2015. Co-editor with Dawn Cornelio and Karin Schwerdtner. Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada (NRSC). Editor-in-chief with Frédérique Arroyas. https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nrsc/issue/view/176#.u4k pavldvqu (2012- ) No. 6 (2013): L Algérie malgré tout No. 7 (2014): Le Potin No. 8 (2015): Improvisation et apprentissage du français Synergies Canada. Editor-in-chief with Eliane Lousada and Frédérique Arroyas. http://synergies.lib.uoguelph.ca (2009-2012) No. 1 (2009): Didactique des langues et des littératures No. 2 (2010): Les Documents authentiques en didactique et en littérature No. 3 (2011): Identités européennes No. 4 (2012): Saisir l intermédialité: constructions et receptions No. 5 (2012) : Apprentissage par l action et perspective actionnelle pour l enseignement des langues
Les réseaux des femmes de lettres au XIXème siècle. Collectif dirigé par Margot Irvine. @nalyses: Revue de théorie et de critique littéraire. 2008-07-21. http://www.revue-analyses.org/sommaire.php?id=1126 La Relation: Actes du cinquième colloque de la Société des Études Supérieures, eds. Margot Irvine, Daniel Halliday, Adeze Igboemeka, Toronto : Editions GFA, 1997. Assisted in the editing of: Falconer, Graham, ed. Autour d un cabinet de lecture, coll. «À la recherche du XIXème siècle», Toronto : Centre d études du XIXème siècle Joseph Sablé, 2000. Texte : Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire, no. 27/28 («L Énonciation : La Pensée dans le texte»), 2000. Vachon, Stéphane et Roland Le Huenen, eds. Itinéraires du XIXème siècle II, coll. «À la recherche du XIXème siècle», Toronto : Centre d études du XIXème siècle Joseph Sablé, 2001. Entries in Reference Works (refereed): Judith Cladel (600 words) in Index des Mémoires de Lucie Delarue-Mardrus Ed. Nelly Sanchez. Online publication on the site of the Association des Amis de Lucie Delarue-Mardrus [accepted and forthcoming in 2015] Myriam Harry (250 words), Julia A. Daudet (250 words), Le Prix Femina (750 words), in Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices. Eds. Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruber. Paris : Editions des femmes, 2013. Greg LeMond (500 words) in The Eighties in America Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2008. In collaboration with John P. Koch. 581-582. Armstrong Wins His First Tour de France (1500 words in Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century III, 1970-1999 Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2008. In collaboration with John P. Koch. 3225-3227. The First Tour de France Cycling Race (1500 words) in Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century I, 1900-
1944 Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2007. In collaboration with John P. Koch. 242-244. The Naturalist Movement (1500 words) in Great Events from History: The Nineteenth-Century, 1801-1900 Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2006. 1138-1141. Reviews : Mesch, Rachel. Having it all in the Belle Époque: How French Women s Magazines Invented the Modern Woman. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2013. Romanic Review [forthcoming] Balducci, Temma and Heather Belnap Jensen, eds. Women, Femininity and Public Space in European Visual Culture, 1789-1914. Ashgate, 2014. Nineteenth-century French Studies [with Emma Cooper. Forthcoming] Women Matter / Femmes et matière(s), eds. Maggie Allison and Imogen Long. Peter Lang, 2013, The Journal of European Studies 44 (4), 2014. 15-19. [with Ivana Ancic] Écrire les hommes : Personnages masculins et masculinité dans l œuvre des écrivaines de la Belle Époque, s. la. dir. de France Grenaudier-Klijn, Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch et Jean Anderson. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2012, @nalyses : Revue de Critique et de Théorie Littéraire, www.revue-analyses.org, vol. 8, nº 3, automne 2013, p. 215-223. https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ojs/index.php/revueanalyses/article/view/921/793 Blanchet, Renée et Georges Aubin, Les Lettres de femmes au XIXe siècle (Québec : Éditions du Septentrion, 2009) pour Francophonies d Amérique, no. 32, 2012. p.214-217. Sarah Steinert Borella, The Travel Narratives of Ella Maillart: (En)Gendering the Quest. New York: Peter Lang, 2006, in Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 42, 2007. p. 123-127. Chantal Bertrand-Jennings, Un autre mal du siècle : le romantisme des romancières, 1800-1846, Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2005, in @nalyses, Recensions, Hiver 07, 2007-01- 30.http://www.revue-analyses.org/document.php?id=279 Helen Harden Chenut, The Fabric of Gender: Working-Class Culture in Third Republic France,University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, in Nineteenth-Century French Studies 34, Nos 3 & 4, Spring-Summer 2006, 413-415.
Dominique Laporte et David Powell, eds. George Sand et ses personnages, 1804-2004, Numéro spécial de la revue Études littéraires, vol. 35, Nos 2-3, été-automne 2003, in George Sand Studies, Vol. 24, 2005, p. 96-98. Mary Lynn Stewart, For Health and Beauty. Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s-1930s, Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000, in University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 72, Number 1, Winter 2002-03, 163-166. Christine Bard et Nicole Pellegrin, eds. Femmes travesties : Un mauvais genre. Numéro spécial de la revue Clio : Histoire, Femmes et Sociétés, no. 10, 1999, in Women and French Studies, 2001, 269-270. Published reviews of my work: by Manon Brunet in University of Toronto Quarterly, vol.80, number 2, spring 2011, p. 535-538. B. Performances and Exhibitions «Couples voyageurs», Histoires littéraires, Comptes rendus, no. 38, 2009. [Version en ligne : http://www.histoires-litteraires.org/archi-cr/cr38.html] Pierre Rajotte, «Pour suivre un époux : les récits de voyages des couples au XIXème siècle», Nuit blanche, Numéro 114, avril-juin 2009. [Version en ligne, réservé aux abonnés : http://www.nuitblanche.com/affiche.aspx?page=4&id=13766] Sylvain Venayre, «La socio-sexuation des récits de voyages au XIX e siècle», @nalyses [En ligne], Comptes rendus, XIXe siècle, mis à jour le : 09/09/2009, URL : http://www.revue-analyses.org/index.php?id=1390 Local coordinator of Guernica: Historia de un cuadro The History of a Painting an exhibition and colloquium commemorating the 70 th anniversary of Picasso s Guernica, University of Guelph Library, January 10-February 15, 2007. Colloquium: January 24, 2007. C. Conferences, Workshops, Invited Lectures
1. Invited Lectures at other Universities and Keynote Addresses Prizes, prestige, lobster and tired eyes: Reconstructing the early history of the prix Femina, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota. November 12, 2012. «Où la chèvre est attachée, il faut qu elle broute. Femmes, voyages et écriture au XIXème siècle.», at the invitation of the research group Voyages, Échanges, Confrontations, Transformation (VECT), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, February 16th 2012 Uneasy Strategies: Gaining Recognition for Women s Writing in the Belle Époque at the University of London Institute in Paris, February 9 th 2012, in the Researching Paris: Case Study series. Spousal Collaborations: Structures of Power and Travel Writing, Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, Alberta. March 4 2011, in the Humanities Speakers Series. Besoin de s exprimer: Les femmes et les arts au XIXème siècle, FRE 364, University of Toronto at Mississauga, March 11, 2010. Women and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century France: Seeking Expression, keynote lecture in honour of Arts Day, at the invitation of the College of Arts Student Union, University of Guelph, November 19, 2009. «Bas-bleus et sociabilités littéraires» at Departmental Forum, Department of French, University of Western Ontario, London, ON on February 9, 2010. «Bas-bleus et sociabilités littéraires» at Vendredi littéraire, Société d études supérieures du département d études françaises, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON on February 5, 2010. (Invited to present my current research by the graduate student association in French Studies). «Judith Cladel, le prix Femina et la notion de réseau» at the Caférencontre, Département d études françaises, Université de Waterloo, Waterloo, ON on October 15, 2008. Courants divergeants de la théorie féministe française, in undergraduate literary theory course, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, February 2005.
Women and Travel in the French Nineteenth Century, in undergraduate History of Women in Europe course, University of Toronto at Mississauga, March 2002. Comment analyser la spécificité de l écriture des femmes?, in undergraduate literary theory course, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, February 2002. ($300.00 honorarium, plus travel expenses). Women and Travel in the Nineteenth-Century, in undergraduate French Cultural Studies course on Women and Power in French Society, University of Toronto, February 2000. «Quelques conseils pour les premières années du programme de doctorat», in Research Methods Graduate Course, University of Toronto, January 2000. «Blue stockings and Exceptional Women: How to Describe the Woman Artist?, in undergraduate French Cultural Studies Course on French Culture. From Napoleon to Asterix, University of Toronto, November 1998. Women and Travel in the Nineteenth-Century, in undergraduate French Cultural Studies course on Women and Power in French Society, University of Toronto, February 1998. Examens, enseignement, enfants: la vie professionnelle et la vie familiale pendant les études supérieures», in Research Methods Graduate Course, University of Toronto, November 1997. «Four Nineteenth-Century Women Travellers: Elisabeth Vigée- Lebrun, Flora Tristan, Adèle Hommaire de Hell, and Raymonde Bonnetain, in undergraduate French Cultural Studies course on Women and Power in French Society, University of Toronto, February 1996. 2. Conference Papers Taking the Podium: Belle Époque Women Writers and Public Oratory, at Northeast Modern Languages Association Convention (NeMLA), Toronto, April 30, 2015. Women s Voices from the Archives, on Joyce Wieland s O Canada, In the Gallery, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON, November 26, 2014.
«Après la mort de mon père, j ai commencé à écrire», Judith Cladel at Femmes d'à côté. Soeurs, filles, épouses d'hommes célèbres, Lettres et sciences humaines, Université de Nancy, France, November 6, 2014. Cross-dressed to kill: Jane Dieulafoy Imagining Women at War, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 17, 2014. «Memory and Biography : Judith Cladel and Auguste Rodin», 7 th International Women in French Conference, University of Guelph, Canada, May 22, 2014. «Le méprix Femina: Dominique Rolin, le comité Femina et le pouvoir de consécration», 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium : Money / L Argent, NYU, CUNY Graduate School, Columbia University, New York, USA, March 8, 2014. ««et je serais désireux de l avoir, cette collaboration féminine» : Goncourt, Daudet, Bonnetain et la collaboration littéraire des femmes», Colloque : La Littérature en bas-bleus : Les romancières en France de 1870-1914, Université de Lille III, Lille, France, October 17, 2013. «La documentation photographique de la mission Bonnetain au Soudan (1892) : Incongruités, instabilités», Convergences XIX : Genres et adaptations, University of Guelph, September 14, 2013. ««On colonise par la femme et non par le fusil» : Raymonde Bonnetain au Soudan (1892)», Colloque : Femmes européennes en voyage, Afrique, Orient, regards littéraire, Université Paris- Sorbonne, France, June 14, 2013. «Des liens de confraternité?» : Friendships and Factions on the Jury of the Prix Femina (1904-1964), Hinsley Hall, Leeds, U.K., Women in French U.K., May 11 th 2013. «Votre jugement que je tiens pour infaillible» : Une lettre de Jane Dieulafoy à Emile Faguet», Convergences XIXe : «Décryptage de l'écrit: épistémologie, ethnocritique et poétique», University of Guelph, October 13, 2012. «Les Collaborations littéraires de Julia Daudet», Colloque : Daudet et les femmes, Association des Amis d Alphonse Daudet,
Fontvieille, France, May 13th 2012. «Judith Cladel (1873-1958), une carrière en lettres», Atelier : Les grandes oubliées de l histoire littéraire, XIXe et XXe siècles, Association des Professeurs de Français des Universités et Collèges canadiens (APFUCC), Social Sciences and Humanities Congress, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, May 31st 2011. «Dans les coulisses du prix Femina : Judith Cladel (1873-1958)», Colloque du Groupe de Recherches Convergences XIXe, University of Guelph, February 14 2011. «Journalisme, cosmopolitisme, féminisme : Les collaboratrices aux Matinées espagnoles», Masculin/Féminin dans la presse du XIXe siècle : Colloque international, pluridisciplinaire organisé par Christine Planté (Lyon 2, LIRE) et Marie-Ève Thérenty (Montpellier III, RIRRA 21), à Lyon, France, 24-26 novembre 2010. Paper given on November 24th 2010. «La plateforme OJS : Outil de gestion de la revue Synergies Canada» présentation co-written with Frédérique Arroyas et Eliane Lousada, delivered by Margot Irvine, 5 ème Rencontre des Rédacteurs en chef du GERFLINT, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland, June 8, 2010. «La plateforme OJS : Outil de gestion de la revue Synergies Canada» avec Frédérique Arroyas et Eliane Lousada, Colloque annuel de l APFUCC, Congrès des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Université Concordia, May 30, 2010. Matinées espagnoles. Nouvelle revue internationale européenne : Cosmopolitisme et féminisme?» La lettre et la presse : Poétique de l'intime et culture médiatique, Colloque International, Université Laval, May 21, 2010. The Spaces of Women s Literary Sociability (1904-1945), 20 th and 21 st Century French Literature Conference, Toronto, March 25, 2010. Enfant, fille, femme: L adolescence dans L Impasse de Paul Bonnetain, at Convergences XIXe : Autour de L Impasse de Paul Bonnetain, January 29, 2010. «A Network of Bas-Bleus : Around Mme Georges de Peyrebrune», Nineteenth-Century French Studies colloquium, Salt
Lake City, Utah, October 23, 2009. «Femmes de lettres et la notion de réseau», Recherches en littérature(s) fin de siècle/tournant de siècle: Perspectives et convergences, University of Guelph, 2 octobre 2009. «Bien entendu, je ferai lire ce morceau de mon journal à mon mari : La collaboration de Paul et Raymonde Bonnetain», at 6ème rencontre annuelle de l ACEF XIX, Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines, Carleton University, Ottawa, 25 mai 2009. Ménages en voyage: Spousal Collaborations and Travel Writing, University of Guelph, SoLaL Speaker Series, November 5 th, 2008. «Une occasion de bonheur : le prix Femina de 1947» at Colloque international «Deux grands romans canadiens, Bonheur d'occasion et Two Solitudes, à l'aune des cultures étrangères», Maison des Sciences Humaines, Paris, France, du 25 au 26 septembre 2008. «L Exploitation de l image numérique dans un cours de littérature du dix- neuvième siècle», at 5ème rencontre annuelle de l ACEF XIX, Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2, 2008. The use of digital images in literature and culture courses, at Twenty-first annual teaching and learning innovations conference, University of Guelph, May 21, 2008. «L Exploitation de l image numérique dans un cours de littérature», roundtable presentation, Symposium : Enseigner la littérature, pratiques et perspectives, University of Guelph, April 21, 2008. Spousal Collaborations in Naturalist Fiction and in Practice, Women in French, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, April 10-12, 2008. «Myriam Harry : Winner of the first Prix Vie Heureuse / Femina (1904)», Nineteenth-Century French Studies colloquium, Mobile, Alabama, October 20, 2007. The role of women s magazines in the creation of the Prix Vie heureuse, at Francophone Women s Magazines Inside and Outside France, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K., June 29, 2006. Une académie de femmes?, at 4ème rencontre annuelle de
l ACEF XIX, Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines, Toronto, Ontario, May 28th 2006. The Ideal Collaborator: Mme Daudet?, Nineteenth-Century French Studies colloquium, Austin, Texas, October 29, 2005. «La Collaboration littéraire entre époux : le cas de Julia Daudet», at 3 ème rencontre annuelle de l ACEF XIX, Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines, London, Ontario, May 2005. «George Sand et Adèle Hommaire de Hell : Un modèle possible pour Le Marquis de Villemer?», at 2 ème rencontre annuelle de l ACEF XIX, Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2004. «L Entrée des femmes à l institution littéraire : La création du Prix Femina», at Femmes et champ littéraire : Enjeux de légitimité, 72 e congrès de l ACFAS, Université du Québec à Montréal, May 2004. «Colloboration ou plagiat? Les récits de voyages de Louis-Claude (1779-1849) et Rose (1794-1832) de Freycinet», at Women in Motion / Femmes en Mouvement, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, May 2003. «Marcelle Tinayre s Notes d une voyageuse en Turquie (1910) : Creating Solidarity Among Women, at A Belle Epoque? Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture, 1890-1910, Leeds, U.K., April 2002. Le Pittoresque et le social dans Un Hiver à Majorque de George Sand, at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 2000. Explaining Jane Dieulafoy s Cross-Dressing, at the Nineteenth- Century French Studies Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania, October 1998. Jane Dieulafoy s Gender Transgressive Behaviour and Conformist Writing, at the Biannual Meeting of Women in French U.K., Ilkley, Yorkshire, U.K., May 1998. Literary Collaborations Between Husbands and Wives: Sharing the Work of Travel Writing, at the Tenth Annual Feminist Colloquium, York University, Toronto, March 1998.
3. Chairing of conference sessions: Gender and the Travel Narrative: a Comparison of Paul and Raymonde Bonnetain s Writing on Soudan, at Fin de siècle?, University of Nottingham, U.K., May 1997. Le ménage en voyage: Raymonde et Paul Bonnetain au Soudan (1892-1893)», at the Congrès Mondial du Conseil International des Études Francophones (CIEF), Toulouse, France, June 1996. Troublesome Trends in the Re-edition of Nineteenth-century Women s Travel Writing, at Parables of Possibility: Interdisciplinarity, the Disciplines and Graduate Women s Studies, Toronto, May 1996. La féminisation du récit de vocation artistique: l exemple des mémoires d Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun», at Women s Studies : New Approaches to Research, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, Montréal, November 1995. «Ourika et les traditions des littératures anti-esclavagistes, at the sixth annual colloquium of the Graduate French Association, Toronto, May 1995. Les Souvenirs d Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun: Un récit de voyage au feminine, at the Sablé Centre for Studies in Romanticism, Toronto, April 1995. L humour des femmes : le cas des Pérégrinations d une paria de Flora Tristan», at the University of Toronto / Université de Québec à Montréal colloquium, Toronto, March 1994. Coordinator of a session on Moral and Literary Contaminations for the Nineteenth-century French Studies colloquium, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, November 7 th, 2015. Coordinator of two sessions on Women, Power and Social Institutions for the Nineteenth-century French Studies colloquium, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 23, 2009. «Enseigner la littérature et la culture du XIXème siècle» at the 6ème rencontre annuelle de l ACEF XIX, Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines, Ottawa, Carleton University, May-June 2009. Association canadienne d études francophones du XIXéme siécle,
B. Other Professional Activities: Service on an editorial board or jury: chair of session «Presse et imaginaire : repenser les frontières», Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2008. Association canadienne d études francophones du XIXéme siécle, presentation of plenary speaker, Dr. Máire Cross, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, 2006. Association canadienne d études francophones du XIXéme siécle, chair of session on «satire», Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Western Ontario, 2005. Association canadienne d études francophones du XIXéme siécle, chair of session on «George Sand, 1804-2004», Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Manitoba, 2004. Association canadienne d études francophones du XIXéme siécle, chair of session on «Le Grand Dictionnaire Universel de Pierre Larousse», Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalhousie University, 2003. Women in Motion / Femmes en mouvement, chair of session «Entre vertu et liberté de mouvement», Mount Allison University, 2003. IWSGS Feminist Utopias, chair of session Post-Scrips : Current Trends in Women s Prose / Fiction, University of Toronto, 2000. 2012- Member of the Editorial Committee, Le petit chose: revue de l association des Amis d Alphonse Daudet 2010-11 Member of the jury for the 2010-2011 Raymond Klibansky Scholarly Book Prize (French language) 2009, 2011 Member, Selection committee for the «prix de la meilleure communication étudiante», APFUCC. 2011- Member, advisory board, Vita Traductiva collection, Éditions québecoises de l œuvre 2006- Member of the Editorial Committee, @nalyses: Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire.
Offices held in professional organizations : 2011-14 Treasurer, Association canadienne d études francophones du XIXe siècle (ACEF XIX) 2006-09 Elected regional representative to the executive committee of Women in French for the region of New England and Eastern Canada. 2002-05 Treasurer, Association canadienne d études francophones du XIXe siècle (ACEF XIX) Journal, grant and publisher refereeing: 2014 Reviewed article for Interférences littéraires 2013 Reviewed SSHRC Insight Grant application 2012 Reviewed article for the Journal of European Studies 2012 Reviewed article for Synergies France 2009-15 Reviewed 9 articles for Women in French Studies 2011 Reviewed article for Synergies Brésil 2011 Reviewed grant application for the Icelandic Research Council. 2011 Reviewed SSHRC Standard Research Grant application. 2009 Reviewed article for Cahiers du XIXème siècle. 2009 Reviewed book manuscript for the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILCQ). 2009 Ontario Graduate Study Scholarship panel member 2008 External evaluator of an article submitted to the University of Toronto Quarterly. 2008 External evaluator of a book manuscript for the Aid to Scholarly Publishing Program. 2005 Evaluator, thematic dossier of the journal Les Cahiers du XIXe siécle, ed. Maxime Prévost and Pascal Brissette. Inaugural issue on L imaginaire de
Program review: l écriture : Personnages et scénarios de la vie littéraire. (No. 1, 2006, Montréal : Editions Nota Bene). 2015 Institutional Quality Assurance Process (IQAP) Review of the French Program, Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department, University of Windsor. 2010 Academic Review of the French Department, Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario. External member of the Undergraduate Program Review Committee, Redeemer University College. Service as an external member on an M.A. or Ph.D. Thesis committee at another institution: 2011 External Examiner for M.A. Thesis on «La Subversion comme voie de salut identitaire dans les Pérégrinations d une paria de Flora Tristan» at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC). 2008-13 Member, PhD thesis committee of Evgenia Timoshenkova, University of Toronto. Thesis director: Roland Le Huenen. Thesis topic: L art de la description et la description de l art dans les Voyages de Théophile Gautier. 2006 External examiner for a Ph.D. thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal. 2004 External Examiner for a Ph.D. thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal. Conference organization: March 21, 2015 May 22-24, 2014 February 1-2, 2014 October 25-27, 2013 Faculty organizer of the inaugural Undergraduate European Studies Conference, University of Guelph, 11 participants. Graduate student co-organizer: Erin Budra. Conference co-organizer [with Dawn Cornelio and Karin Schwerdtner], Seventh International Women in French Conference, University of Guelph. 103 participants. Secured grants from the Union des écrivains québécois, University of Western Ontario, University of Guelph. Member, Conference Organizing Committee, Third International Conference on Second-Language Pedagogies, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, ON. Member, Conference Organizing Committee, Re-imagining
Communities and Civil Society, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, University of Guelph February 2-3, 2013 September 14, 2013 October 1-3, 2010 May 28-30, 2006 Member, Conference Organizing Committee, Second Languages Pedagogies Conference, University of Guelph Organiser [with Clive Thomson], Convergences XIXe: Genres et adaptations, University of Guelph. Conference co-organizer [with Sandra Parmegiani, Russell Kilbourn, Mary Decoste, Paola Mayer, David MacDonald] of the International European Studies Conference: Europe in its own eyes, Europe in the eyes of the Other, University of Guelph, 1-3 October, 2010. Secured funding from the French Consulate in Toronto in order to support a guest lecture by Dr. Philippe Nemo, Directeur Scientifique du Centre de Recherche en Philosophie Economique, ESCP Europe. Sucessfully obtained a grant of $22,960 from the Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada program, SSHRC. Co-applicant with Sandra Parmegiani. Conference organiser for the annual colloquium of the Association canadienne d études francophones du XIXe siècle, held at the Social Sciences and Humanities Congress at the York University, May 28-30, 2006. Secured funding from the French Consulate in Toronto in order to support a guest lecture by Dr. Béatrice Didier, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Secured funding from ACEF XIX in order to support a guest lecture by Dr. Máire Cross, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. 2005 Conference organiser for the annual colloquium of the Association canadienne d études francophones du XIXe siècle, held at the Social Sciences and Humanities Congress at the University of Western Ontario, May 2005. 2004 Conference organiser for the annual colloquium of the Association canadienne d études francophones du XIXe siècle, held at the Social Sciences and Humanities Congress at the University of Manitoba, May 2004. Secured funding from the French Embassy in Ottawa in order to support a guest lecture by Dr. Annick Houel, Université de Lyon II.
4. Service and Administration, for the College of Arts and University of Guelph 2015- Member, University of Guelph Senate Honours and Awards Committee 2015 Member, Dean s Council, College of Arts [One of six advisors to the Dean, as Acting Director, School of Languages and Literatures. Bi-monthly meetings] 2014- B.A. Program Committee 2014- Member, Curriculum Committee, College of Arts 2013-16 College of Arts Representative, Senate, University of Guelph [Elected] 2012-13 Coordinator, European Studies [Head of Programme] 2012-13 Member, Dean s Council, College of Arts [One of six advisors to the Dean, as Coordinator of European Studies. Bi-monthly meetings] 2012-13 Chair, Executive Committee, European Studies 2012- Local Coordinator, Crossways in Cultural Narratives Erasmus Mundus M.A. 2012- Member, Admissions Committee, Crossways in Cultural Narratives Erasmus Mundus M.A. 2009-11 Coordinator, European Studies [Head of Programme] 2010-11 Graduate Coordinator, European Studies 2010-11 Local Coordinator, Crossways in Cultural Narratives 2010-11 Chair, Graduate Committee, European Studies 2009-11 Chair, Executive Committee, European Studies 2009-11 Member, Dean s Council, College of Arts [One of six advisors to the Dean, as Coordinator of European Studies. Bi-monthly meetings] 2009-11 Member, Curriculum Committee, College of Management and Economics
2010 Representative at Graduate Studies Preview Day, October 23 rd, 2010. 2010 Representative of the School of Languages and Literatures at the Ontario Universities Fair, September 26, 2010. 2009 Representative of the School of Languages and Literatures at the Ontario Universities Fair, September 26 th 2009. 2008-9 Representative of the School of Languages and Literatures at the Fall Preview Day. 2007-08 Member, Selection Committee, President s and Chancellor s Admissions Scholarships. 2007- Adjunct / Thesis committee member for the proposed M.A. in Art History. 2006 Representative of the School of Languages and Literatures at the Ontario Universities Fair, September 30 th 2006. Service and Administration, for the School of Languages and Literatures (Department-level) 2015 (Sept-Dec) Acting Director, School of Languages and Literatures 2015 Supervisor of 3 graduate research assistants (E. Cooper, R. Collings, E. Budra) 2014-15 Coordinator for visits of 3 international scholars: Nathalie Solomon (Université de Perpignan, 2 weeks), Jocelyn Dupont (Université de Perpignan, France, 2 weeks), Isabelle Cases (Université de Perpignan, 2 weeks). 2014-15 Course coordinator, FREN*2030 2013- Assistant Director, School of Languages and Literatures 2014- Chair, Curriculum Committee 2012-14 Member, Curriculum Committee. 2014 Supervisor of 2 graduate research assistants (I. Ancic, K. Brière).
2013 Supervisor of 3 graduate research assistants (B. Carroll, K. Erwin, E. Hambleton) and 1 President s Scholar undergraduate research assistant (D. March). 2007-14 Supervisor of teaching assistants in teaching FREN*1100 DE: Fall 2007, Winter 2008, Fall 2008, Winter 2009, Fall 2009, Winter 2010, Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2014. 2013 Supervisor of teaching assistant in FREN*1090 DE: Fall 2013 2013-14 Coordinator for visits of 2 international scholars: John Flower (University of Kent, U.K., 1 week), Bénédicte Meillon (Université de Perpignan, France, 2 weeks). 2012-13 Coordinator for visits of 5 international scholars: Jocelyn Dupont (Université de Perpignan, France, 6 weeks), Alicja Zuchelkowska (University of Poznan, Poland, 2 weeks), Élodie Chazalon (Université de Perpignan, France, 2 weeks), Anne-Simone Dufief (Université d Angers, France, 1 week), John Flower (University of Kent, U.K., 1 week) 2006-14 Academic Advisor, European Studies 3 rd Year Abroad in France 2006-13 Assisted in the creation of posters and on-line materials for the recruitment of students to European Studies (M.A., B.A. major and minor). 2009-12 Faculty representative for European Studies at the meeting for new majors. 2007-2010 Undergraduate Advisor, French Studies. 2006-2009, 2013- Assistant Coordinator, European Studies. 2009-11 Member, Curriculum Committee. 2007-08 Co-organiser (with Sandra Parmegiani), European Studies Speaker Series. 2006-09 Member, European Studies Standing Committee. 2007 Member, Search Committee for a position in French Studies. 2007-11, 2012-13 Member, Admissions committee for the M.A. in European Studies.
2006-07 Member, Search Committee for a position in European Studies. 2006-07 Member, Committee to revise the offerings of the French Studies Program. 2006 Member, Women s Studies Advisory Committee 2005-06 Member, Planning committee for the M.A. in European Studies 2006-09 Faculty representative for French Studies at the meeting for new majors. 2005-09 Faculty Coordinator for the SOLAL Newsletter. 2004-08 Faculty liaison with La Maison Française.