Catherine Khordoc
Faculty
Catherine Khordoc is Professor of the Department of French and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, teaching courses on Québécois and francophone literatures and cultures. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture, and the Migration and Diaspora Studies programs. She arrived at Carleton as a faculty member in 2003, coming from the University of Limerick in Ireland. She is also an alumna of Carleton, having obtained her Bachelor of Journalism and her Master’s in French in the early 1990s.
Her research focuses on contemporary Québécois literature, examining the texts that evoke issues related to immigration, exile, cultural identity, and belonging, and is particularly interested in how these questions are complicated through multiple sites of belonging. She is the author of Tours et détours: le mythe de Babel dans la littérature contemporaine, which was published in 2012 by the University of Ottawa Press, and co-editor of Comparing Migration: The Literatures of Canada and Québec / Migrance comparée: Les littératures du Canada et du Québec. She is currently completing a book on the Québec writer Monique Bosco. Her long-standing interest in the intersections of mathematics and literature have led to the publication of several articles and a special issue of the journal Études littéraires.
Besides her teaching and research responsibilities, Dr. Khordoc served as the Chair of the Department of French, as Associate Dean (Student Affairs) and interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and has sat on numerous committees at departmental, faculty, and university levels.
Catherine was elected to the Board of Governors for a three-year term commencing July 1, 2021 and ending June 30, 2024.
Committees:
- Governance