Mylène Dorcé
Position
Contact
Credentials
Ph.D. (Université de Montréal), M.A. (McMaster University), B.A. (McMaster University)
Area of expertise
Insular Francophone Literatures (Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean); Francophone African Literatures (Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa); Québécois Migrant Literature; First Person Narratives; Postcolonial, decolonial and transnational theories; Feminist Theories and Praxis; Women Writers
Pronouns
She/her/hers (in English)
Elle/la (en français)
Mylène Dorcé is an Assistant Professor of Francophone African and Caribbean Studies. Before joining the Department of French and Francophone Studies at UVic, she taught Introduction to Francophone Literature courses at Université de Montréal, and French as a Second Language courses at Université du Québec à Montréal. She also worked for over 15 years as a Strategic Communications Advisor, Translator and PR Specialist for the federal government, in Ottawa and Montréal. Her current research projects focus on first person narratives among feminist writers from Francophonie, and also on the specificities of selected works published by women writers from insular Francophone regions (Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean).
Specializations
Insular Francophone Literatures (Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean);
Francophone African Literatures (Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa);
Québécois Migrant Literature;
First Person Narratives;
Postcolonial, decolonial and transnational theories;
Feminist Theories and Praxis;
Women Writers
Research projects
Féminisme et écriture de soi en Francophonie (Funded by the University of Victoria and the Université de Montréal)
Migrations et mobilités intracontinentales contemporaines : Acadie-Antilles-Louisiane-Québec (in collaboration with Dr. Corina Crainic, Institut d’Études acadiennes de l’Université de Moncton. Funded by the Université de Moncton)
Femmes des îles : espaces liminaires (in collaboration with Dr. Christiane Ndiaye, Université de Montréal)
Story Time: Scary Time? Evil Mythological Creatures in Children and Young Adult Literature (in collaboration with Dr. Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College)
Selected publications
Book
Les JE(U)X de l’écriture de soi chez les écrivaines des Caraïbes francophones: affirmation, rébellion, transgression. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal (forthcoming).
Articles and book chapters
« Imaginaire dystopique et insularité inhospitalière : les contre-discours océaniques chez Nathacha Appanah et Chantal Spitz », Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements, Anny-Dominique Curtius and Jacqueline Couti (eds.), Liverpool, Liverpool University Press (forthcoming)
« Au nom du père et de la fille et de la sainte-patrie : autorité paternelle, rébellion filiale et affliction populaire chez trois écrivaines haïtiennes », Les enjeux de la littérature haïtienne contemporaine, Joubert Satyre (ed.), Montréal, CIDIHCA, 2018, p. 135-164.
« Dany Laferrière: de l’écrivain intarissable au cinéaste insaisissable », Interculturel Francophonies, Yolaine Parisot (ed.), vol. 30, 2016, p. 73-104.
« Kenbé rèd sò, pa lagé ! Dictature, colère, humour chez trois écrivaines haïtiennes », Le Sacrifice dans les littératures francophones, Carole Edwards (ed.), Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2014, p. 193-227.
Courses taught
- FRAN 265 (Global French Connections) - Fall 2023
- FRAN 375 (Writing in French II) - Spring 2024
- FRAN 420/517 (Studies in Francophone Literatures and Cultures) - Fall 2023