When I joined Carleton’s French Department in 2003, I felt like I was coming home in more ways than one. While Ottawa is my hometown, I also obtained two of my degrees at Carleton. I was at Carleton in the late 80s, studying for a degree in Journalism with a minor in French. I went on to work at CBC Radio in Qu\u00e9bec City for a few years before coming back to Carleton to study for a Master’s degree in French. My M.A. thesis examined how humour is created in the famous comic book series, Ast\u00e9rix le Gaulois <\/em>. As a Ph.D. student in French at the University of Toronto, I wrote a dissertation on the tower of Babel myth in contemporary francophone literature. Since then, I spent a few years living in Switzerland and I taught French literature (sneaking in a few Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois novels into my courses when possible!) at the University of Limerick in Ireland.<\/p>\n Shortly after coming back to Carleton, I founded the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) with two other colleagues, Sarah Casteel who is in the English Department, and Ming Tiampo in Art History. Together, we seek to create a network of scholars who share common interests and to stimulate research and debate on transnational objects of study.<\/p>\n My current research interests focus on transcultural writing in France and Qu\u00e9bec as well as migrant writing in Qu\u00e9bec and Canada.<\/p>\n Translation of\u00a0Baldwin, Styron, and Me\u00a0<\/i>by M\u00e9likah Abdelmoumen. Biblioasis, 2025. Finalist for the John-Glassco Prize for translation. (French to English)<\/p>\n Co-editor, with Karin Schwerdtner and Tara Collington.\u00a0Travers\u00e9es et franchissements de fronti\u00e8res. Hommage \u00e0 Janet M. Paterson.<\/i>\u00a0\u00c9ditions David, 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Tours et detours: Le mythe de Babel dans la litt\u00e9rature contemporaine. Ottawa: Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 d\u2019Ottawa, 2012.<\/p>\n Marie Carri\u00e8re et Catherine Khordoc, eds. Comparing Migration: The Literatures of Canada and Qu\u00e9bec \/ Migrance compar\u00e9e: Les Litt\u00e9ratures du Canada et du Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008.<\/p>\n Co-editor of special issue of Nouvelles \u00e9tudes francophones<\/em>. \u00ab\u00a0Les pratiques scripturales de la migrance litt\u00e9raire.\u00a0\u00bb (with Marianne Bessy) 27.2 (Printemps 2012).<\/p>\n (with Marie Carri\u00e8re) \u201cFor Better or for Worse: Revisiting \u00e9criture migrante <\/em>in Qu\u00e9bec.\u00a0\u00bb The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature<\/em>. Cynthia Sugars,New York\u00a0: Oxford University Press, 2015. 621-638.<\/p>\n \u201cVers une reterritorialisation de la tour de Babel. Deux exemples tir\u00e9s de la literature qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise.\u201d D\u00e9territorialisation: Effet de mode ou concept pertinent? <\/em>Christiane Albert et Abel Kouvouama, eds. Pau, France: Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Pau et des pays de l\u2019Adour, 2013. 97-106.<\/p>\n \u201cConstructions am\u00e9ricaines de la tour de Babel dans la litt\u00e9rature contemporaine.\u201d La <\/em>tour de Babel<\/em>. Arras: Artois Presses Universit\u00e9, Collection \u201cGraph\u00e8\u201d, no 21, 163-175.<\/p>\n \u201cLe camouflage autobiographique dans L\u2019algarabie<\/em> de Jorge Sempr\u00fan.\u201d Les\u00a0 <\/em>R\u00e9\u00e9crivains: Enjeux transtextuels dans la litt\u00e9rature moderne d\u2019expression\u00a0 <\/em>fran\u00e7aise<\/em>. Patrick Bergeron et Marie Carri\u00e8re, eds. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. 121-37.<\/p>\n \u201cLooking Beyond the Elephant: The Mexican Connection in Francine No\u00ebl\u2019s La Conjuration des b\u00e2tards<\/em>\u201d, Canada and Its Americas. Winfried Siemerling and Sarah Casteel, eds. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press, 2010. 231-245.<\/p>\n with Marie Carri\u00e8re, \u201cIntroduction.\u201d Comparing Migration: The Literatures of Canada and Qu\u00e9bec \/ Migrance compar\u00e9e: Les Litt\u00e9ratures du Canada et du Qu\u00e9bec<\/em>. Marie Carri\u00e8re and Catherine Khordoc, eds. Bern: Peter Lang, 2008.1-16. \u201cFrom Migrant to Transnational: Contemporary Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Literature.\u201d Qu\u00e9bec <\/em>Studies<\/span><\/span><\/em>, 63 (Spring 2017): 77-96.<\/p>\n \u201cTraversing Traversing the Borders of \u00c9criture Migrante<\/em> \u2013Transnational Writing in Qu\u00e9bec.\u201d CLCWeb\u00a0: Comparative Literature and Culture<\/em>, 18.4, December 2016.<\/p>\n \u201cIntroduction: Plaidoyer pour l\u2019analyse des pratiques scripturales de la migrance dans les litt\u00e9ratures contemporaines en fran\u00e7ais. \u201d\u00a0Nouvelles \u00e9tudes francophones <\/em>(Special issue edited by Marianne Bessy and Catherine Khordoc, \u00ab\u00a0Les pratiques scripturales de la migrance litt\u00e9raire\u00a0\u00bb) vol 27 no<\/sup> 1 (2012): 1-18.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Anti-Tower of Babel: A Critique of Multiculturalism in Ainsi parle la tour CN<\/em> by H\u00e9di Bouraoui.\u201d TransCanadiana: Polish Journal of Canadian Studies. Vol 2 (2009): 51-65.<\/p>\n \u201cOublier le pass\u00e9 ou inventer la vie : Autobiographie et fiction, m\u00e9moire et oubli dans l\u2019\u0153uvre de Monique Bosco.\u201d Nouvelles \u00e9tudes francophones<\/em>. vol 24 no<\/sup> 2 <\/span>(Automne 2009)\u00a0: 145-155.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLe th\u00e9\u00e2tre peut-il retirer le couteau plant\u00e9 dans la gorge? Le th\u00e9\u00e2tre engag\u00e9 de Wajdi Mouawad,\u201d\u00a0International conference at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, \u00ab\u00a0Writing, taking action, resisting: reconfigurations of literary engagement,\u201d November 2025.<\/p>\n Ottawa Writers Festival \/ Library and Archives Canada \/ Ottawa\u00a0Public\u00a0Library<\/p>\n Discussion with M\u00e9likah Abdelmoumen and Catherine Khordoc around the\u00a0translation\u00a0of\u00a0Baldwin, Styron and Me<\/i>.\u00a0<\/i>May 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[35],"yoast_head":"\nResearch Interests<\/h3>\n
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