Cécilia W. Francis
BA (HONS.) (WINNIPEG), MA, PHD (LAVAL)
PROFESSOR
Dr. Francis holds a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from l’Université Laval. During her doctoral programme, she completed a FCAR funded Internship at l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and afterwards was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at l’Université du Québec à Montréal. She received her MA in French from l’Université Laval and completed a Bachelor’s of Arts (Honours) degree in French at the University of Winnipeg.
Dr. Francis is a specialist of Francophone literature produced by writers linked to Northern Africa, the Mediterranean and North America. Her published scholarship and programs of research have primarily focused on 20th century women’s writing, migrant/diaspora writing, autobiography, littérature-monde, literary theory, experimental prose and cinema. In her research, she has developed critical frameworks based on postcolonial literary theories, discourse analysis, gender, feminist analytical perspectives, theories of narratology and enunciation, semiotics of affect and phenomenology.