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F. Paré

B.A. (Montreal), Ph.D. (State University of New York, Buffalo), FRSC

University Professor
office: ML 332
phone: x36850
e-mail



François Paré's work is in the area of minority literatures, literature as a cultural institution, and 16th-century France. His book, Les littératures de l'exiguïté (Le Nordir, 1992, 1995, 2001), was awarded the Governor General's Award in 1993. His other books on Franco-Ontarian and Québec literatures include: Théories de la fragilité (Le Nordir, 1994), Traversées (with François Ouellet, Le Nordir, 2000), Frontières Flottantes / Shifting Boundaries (with Jaap Lintvelt, Rodopi, 2001), Le fantasme d'Escanaba (Nota Bene, 2007), and Louis Hamelin et ses doubles (with François Ouellet, Nota Bene, 2008).

He is presently working on three different projects: a photographic essay on Sudbury, an essay on diasporic cultures, and an epistolary essay with François Ouellet on Québec novelist Louis Hamelin. He is currently working on a SSHRC-funded project on traces of oblivion in contemporary North American Francophone cultures. A book, tentatively titled L'effacement du nom, is due to appear in 2011.

He received the Distinguished Teacher Award in 2009.