March 2023 Gender Matters Speaker Series
Gender Matters Speakers Series, Wed, March 22, 12-1pm.
This event will take place in Robert Sutherland Hall in Room 202. Registration is not required.
Dr. Chloé Savoie-Bernard is a writer who works various forms: poetry, short story, literary criticism, and translation. As an editor she works at L’Hexagone, a publishing house in Montréal. She is also developing a practice in performance. She has published several books, most notably Des femmes savantes, (Triptyque, 2016) and most recently Sainte Chloé de l’amour (Hexagone, 2021). Since September 2022, she is a professor in the Department of French Studies at Queen’s University.
Juliane Okot Bitek is a poet. Her collection of poetry, 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016) was nominated for several writing prizes including the 2017 BC Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. Her most recent publication A is for Acholi (Wolsak and Wynn 2022) is a poetry collection that reflects on life as a Black diasporan person in Canada. Juliane lives in Kingston, Canada, to on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe people. She is an assistant professor of Black Studies at Queen's University, in Kingston, where she is joint appointed in Gender Studies and English.