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Stéphanie Walsh Matthews is an Associate Professor and Director of Curriculum Quality Assurance in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Toronto Metropolitan University. She joined the university in 2007, bringing her expertise in contemporary Québécois literature, magic realism, semiotics, cognitive linguistics, postcolonial theories, human-robot interaction, and psychoanalysis to the academic community. Walsh Matthews earned her B.A. in Lettres françaises from the University of Ottawa and completed an M.A. in French Studies, focusing on semiotics, at the University of Toronto's Victoria College. Her doctoral dissertation investigated 'Le Réalisme magique dans la littérature contemporaine québécoise' using genre sociocritical theoretical approaches. She teaches courses in linguistics, anthropology, semiotics, and intercultural relations at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Active in professional societies, she is an Executive Member of the Semiotic Society of America and the International Association for Semiotic Studies. She has authored numerous chapters and articles on magical realism and has served as the French Editor for the renowned journal Semiotics, Semiotica. Additionally, she directed the Arts Contemporary Studies program from 2011 to 2021 and continues to publish in leading semiotic journals and to engage in research within the robotics field.
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