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Office Hours:<\/strong> Wed. from 1 to 2.30 pm or by appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Chair, I welcome walk-in visits as I am on campus most days during the semester, but please note that I often have to attend meetings; if the matter you want to discuss is urgent, it might be best to make an appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I joined the Department of French at Carleton in January 2018 and became associate professor in 2021. Since July 2025, I am also the Chair of the Department of French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My research projects in sociolinguistics all share a common interest in studying the relationship between languages, multilingualism, power and social inequalities. My work bridges approaches in critical sociolinguistics, historical sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. More specifically, I study how processes of categorization, legitimization and hierarchization of language practices and speakers unfold in North American French-speaking communities, and what that entails in terms of inclusion and exclusion. As a Belgo-Canadian bilingual professor working and living in a francophone minority context and participating in Canadian, European and international research networks and Scholarly Associations, I also draw on the converging insights of both French-speaking and English-speaking sociolinguistics and applied linguistics research traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since my PhD dissertation (a history of language ideologies in Louisiana French newspapers and periodicals from 1861-2010), my main research projects focus on the intersection between language, nationalism and colonialism in Acadia (and especially in New-Brunswick). Started in 2017, my current project studies the role of discourses about Indigenous peoples and languages in the history of Acadian nationalism, notably in the press (https:\/\/carleton.ca\/francophonieetcolonialisme\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025-2026 Courses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n