Dr. Frenand Léger

Biography

Frenand Léger holds academic credentials in Education Sciences, Linguistics, and Literature. He earned a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from Indiana University in 2005 and completed his PhD at the University of Toronto in 2016. He joined Carleton University’s Department of French the same year. Léger is a founding member of the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen and currently serves as a visiting professor of Haitian Studies at Florida International University. His research spans primary fields, including literature, educational linguistics, and sociolinguistics, taking an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. He explores intersections of language, culture, ideology, identity, and politics in Haiti and the Caribbean. His literary research centers on issues of language, identity, orality, and fictional narratives in the Francophone Caribbean. Léger's forthcoming book analyzes key works by Haitian novelists and short story writers from the 19th century, aiming to highlight the impact of Haitian literature within the global South, particularly the Caribbean and Africa. He has published numerous scholarly articles on Haiti’s sociolinguistic landscape and Haitian literature in leading academic journals and edited volumes, including those from prestigious presses such as Cambridge University Press and University of Toronto Press. He is also co-author of a series of French and Haitian-Creole language textbooks aligned with the Council of Europe’s action-oriented approach.

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