Cécilia W. Francis
BA (HONS.) (WINNIPEG), MA, PHD (LAVAL)
PROFESSOR
Dr. Francis holds a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval. During her doctoral programme, she completed a FCAR funded Internship at l鈥櫭塩ole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and afterwards was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at l鈥橴niversit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al. She received her MA in French from l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval and completed a Bachelor鈥檚 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鈥檚 writing, migrant/diaspora writing, autobiography, litt茅rature-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.
