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Céline Bonnotte-Hoover

Instructor II

Degrees:Honours BA French and Spanish, MA French Literature, PhD French Literature
Phone:613-520-2600 x 3590
Email:celine.bonnotte@carleton.ca
Office:1618 Dunton Tower

Office Hours: Thursday 12pm-1pm or by apt.

2023-2024 Courses

  • FREN 1002E
  • FREN 3060A (Winter)
  • FREN 3702A (Fall)

Biography

I was born in France and learned English when I moved to Canada. Later, I learned Spanish and travelled throughout South America. In both contexts, I experienced what it’s like to try to communicate in an unfamiliar language. Those experiences greatly impacted my teaching style. My love of languages, as well as of reading, led me to study in the field of travel literature. I recently completed my PhD at the University of Toronto. My thesis focused on the nature and evolution of the role of interpreters, translators and mediators in the writings of Early Modern French travellers. This topic, which links back to my interest in language teaching, made me reflect on the diversity of language teaching strategies and how language was learned in a time where textbooks were nonexistent. During my PhD, I taught a wide range of French language, translation and literature courses at various levels.

Research Interests

  • Technology in the classroom
  • French teaching methodology
  • Integrating francophone culture into the classroom
  • Translation
  • Travel literature

Scholarships/Awards

2021: Excellence in Blended and Online Teaching Award (Carleton University)

2019: Certificat d’excellence en enseignement (French Department, University of Toronto)

2013-2014; 2016-2019: Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2014-2016: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Scholarship

Presentations (since 2017)

May 24th-25th, 2018: Université du Québec à Montréal. “Acquisition de compétences (inter)culturelles à travers l’approche actionnelle: défis et pistes de résolution pour les apprenants de FLS dans le contexte canadien” during the 7th Meeting on Language Teaching (MeLT 2018).

April 20th, 2018: University of Toronto. “Dévelopement des compétences intercultruelles à travers la série Écho” during the conference entitled “Enseigner le français dans le contexte canadien : relever le défi de l’hétérogénéité des élèves et des enseignants”

October 18-22, 2017: The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) Annual Conference. “Les interprètes du XVIIIe siècle: rupture ou continuité ?”

May 27-29, 2017: Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (CSRS). “Portrait de deux médiateurs en action : le voyage à Sumatra des frères Parmentier”, during the CSRS/SCÉR Congress 2017.

Publications

Bonnotte, Céline, « Interpreters in Early Modern China: The roles of the interpreter in Matteo Ricci’s Journals », Routledge, Forthcoming.

Bonnotte, Céline, « Entre parole et discours : la voix des interprètes entre les lignes du récit du voyageur », Herman, Cahiers du CIERL, Forthcoming.

Bonnotte, Céline, « Le truchement: un personnage de l’entre-deux » in @nalyses, Proceedings of the Colloque de l’Université de Montréal (May 2-3, 2013), vol. 10, n° 2, printemps-été 2015.