Julien Defraeye
BA (STRASBOURG), MA (HAUTE-ALSACE), MA,
PHD (WATERLOO)
Assistant Professor
Dr. Defraeye is an Assistant Professor of French at St. Thomas University. He first received a B.A. in English from the Université de Strasbourg and an M.A. in English from the Université de Haute-Alsace. He then completed an M.A. in French Studies under the supervision of Professor François Paré at the University of Waterloo, focusing on contemporary Québécois literature and the representation of time in metafictional narratives of authors such as Élise Turcotte and Kim Thúy. His Ph.D. dissertation, under the supervision of Professor Élise Lepage at the University of Waterloo, analysed contemporary Québécois fiction through the lens of growing theories in ecopoetics and aimed at determining literary mechanisms and strategies of representations of the environmental crisis over the past 25 years through the works of Robert Lalonde, Louis Hamelin, Monique Proulx, Lise Tremblay and Jocelyne Saucier.