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Sophie Ménard has been a professor in the Department of French Literatures since 2019. She obtained her doctorate in literary studies in 2011 from UQÀM/Paris-10. Besides her thesis, published as Émile Zola et les aveux du corps. Les savoirs du roman naturaliste (Classiques Garnier, 2014), she has completed two critical editions: La Conquête de Plassans by Émile Zola (Classiques Garnier, 2013) and Mademoiselle Giraud, ma femme by Adolphe Belot (Classiques Garnier, 2019), and has published several articles on Zola, the Goncourts, Maupassant, Baudelaire, and Sand. An ethnocritic specializing in research on 19th century French literature, she works at the intersection of poetics and ethnology, focusing on the socio-cultural imagination within literary works. Currently, she is co-director of the Laboratory of Ethnocriticism and Anthropology of Literature (LEAL), serves on the editorial board of the journal Cahiers de littérature orale, and co-directs the EthnocritiqueS series at Éditions de l’Université de Lorraine.
University of Montreal • Montreal, Canada
Teaches courses and supervises graduate students in literature and ethnocriticism.
Most programs require French B2 level; specific departments may require C1 or C2.