The departments of French Studies and Languages, Literatures and Cultures present:

Dr. Isabelle St-Amand

"Francophone Indigenous Literatures beyond Exiguity: an Ethics of Collaboration and Creative Thinking"

Isabelle St-Amand is co-responsible for a graduate summer institute on Indigenous literatures at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM) that she co-founded in 2013. Her book La crise d'Oka en récits: territoire, cinéma et littérature (Presses de l'Université Laval 2015) will be published in English translation at University of Manitoba Press in the Spring 2018. Over the last years, she has also conducted  sustained community-based research in close partnership with Indigenous organizations in Montreal and Kahnawake.

This lecture is part of the Queen's National Scholar process in the field of Aboriginal Literatures in French and Migrant Literatures.

All welcome