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Anne Trépanier

Associate Professor

Degrees:B.A. (Laval); M.A. (McGill); M.A. (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris France); Ph.D. (Laval); Postdoc (Ottawa)
Email:anne.trepanier@carleton.ca
Office:1620 Dunton Tower
Please contact me via email to make an appointment.
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Cross-appointed with the Department of French

Biography

B.A. History,  Laval University (1996)

M.A. Département de langue et de littérature françaises, McGill University (1999)

M.A. Political Studies, Centre Raymond-Aron,  Écoles des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales (2002)

Ph.D. History, Laval University (2005)

Postdoctoral research at University of Ottawa (2006)

Her doctoral research examined recurring historiographical battles and put forward the idea of refoundation (in French : refondation) for exploring the narrative and rhetorical structures of “textual  events”.

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Anne Trépanier, award-winning author and teacher, is an historian specialized in historiography, a passionate teacher and guest speaker.

Anne Trépanier collaborates frequently to public history projects and initiates academic conferences. She is the organizer of “Ça Jase en Tiguidou” a Francophone literary festival that takes place annually in Rome.

Sense of belonging, national representations, identity narratives, and textual archeology are the compas points of her intellectual queries. Her current research critically explores representations of Canadian and Quebec histories and narratives through theatre and museum representations.

Courses 2025/2026:

Fall 2025 FREN 3812 De l’écrit à l’écran ; du théâtre au cinéma

Fall 2025 CDNS 5001 MA core course – Advanced research in Canadian Studies

Selected Recent Publications 

2024 De l’hydre au castor, représentations de la Confédération dans la presse de l’Amérique du nord britannique (1844-1867) Best Book in Canadian Studies Award 2024 (Canadian Studies Network).

2022 “Cha(lle)nging Canada representations in Italy” in The Construction of Canadian Identity from Abroad, Christopher Kirkey and Richard Nimijean (Eds.) Palgrave/Macmillan, p. 301-320.

2021  «Le Québec, une société en trompe-l’œil? La narration de la nation québécoise en son propre temps», in L’extrême contemporain Québec (Hélène Amrit et  Vijaya Rao dir.), New Delhi, Goyal Publishers, 24 pages /«Le Québec une société en trompe-l’œil? La narration du Québec en son propre temps», Interfaces Brasil/Canadá, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Canadenses, vol. 20, December 2020, 21 pages.

2021  «L’avenir des études canadiennes : les ego studies comme seul horizon ?», in Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, Special Dossier 40 Jahre Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien: Futures of Canadian Studies L’avenir des études canadiennes,  Katja Sarkowsky Martin Thunert Doris G. Eibl (Eds.), n.41, Jahrgang 2021, p. 202-207.

2009  La rénovation de l’héritage démocratique : entre fondation et refondation, University of Ottawa Press, 340 pages.

2001  Un discours à plusieurs voix. La grammaire du oui en 1995, Presses de l’université Laval, 143 pages.