Pierre-Luc Landry
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Credentials
Postdoctoral fellowship (University of Ottawa), Ph.D. (Université Laval), M.A. (Université Laval), B.A. (Université Laval)
Area of expertise
Cultural Studies; Critical Québec Studies; Contemporary Literatures and Cultures (France, Canada and the Francophone World); Indigenous Literature and Culture; Settler Colonial Studies; Creative Writing; Research-Creation; Queer Theories and LGBTQIA2S+ Cultures; Children's and Young Adult Literature; Contemporary Cultural, Social and Political Thought; Media Studies; Film Studies
Pronouns
He/they (in English)
Il/iel (en français)
Pierre-Luc Landry first joined the Department of French and Francophone Studies at UVic in July 2019 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor within the School of Languages, Linguistics and cultures in July 2024. Previously, Pierre-Luc Landry taught at the Cégep de l’Outaouais (Gatineau), at the Université Laval (Québec), at the University of Ottawa and at the Royal Military College of Canada (Kingston).
His research focuses on contemporary literatures and cultures of various geographical areas (mostly Québec, Canada and France), and on Indigenous literatures and cultures. His area of expertise encompasses research-creation —understood as an "undisciplined" methodology—, queer theories and cultural studies. Trained in the field of narratology, he expanded his theoretical standpoint to include feminist, decolonial, and cultural critics in his toolbox to explore and examine art and literature, and their relationship with society.
Pierre-Luc Landry is also a writer, a publisher, and a queer activist. He writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry as well as other hybrid or undisciplined genres. Pierre-Luc Landry also works as a podcaster and content producer. His work was shortlisted for many prizes and received different national accolades.
As a white settler born on the Ndakina, the traditional territory of the W8banaki people, in southeastern Québec, he is humbled and thankful to have the opportunity to teach, write, and think on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ peoples.
Visit Pierre-Luc Landry’s website for more information.
Specializations
- Cultural Studies
- Critical Québec Studies
- Contemporary Literatures and Cultures (France, Canada and the Francophone World)
- Indigenous Literature and Culture
- Settler Colonial Studies
- Creative Writing
- Research-Creation
- Queer Theories and LGBTQIA2S+ Cultures
- Children's And Young Adult Literature
- Contemporary Cultural, Social and Political Thought
- Media Studies
- Film Studies
Current Research Affiliations
- Director: Colonialisme, culture & critique / Colonialism, Culture & Critique
- Director: Groupe de travail et d’expérimentation sur l’indiscipline
- Regular Member: Esthétique et politique de l’image cinématographique / Esthetics and Politics of the Image of Cinema (EPIC)
- Regular Member: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Researchers at the University of Victoria
- Associate Member: Équipe de recherches en études queer au Québec (ÉRÉQQ)
Published books
- La guerre est dans les mots et il faut les crier, with Florian Grandena, Montréal: Triptyque, « Queer », 2022.
- Se faire éclaté·e. Expériences marginales et écriture de soi, with Nicholas Dawson and Karianne Trudeau Beaunoyer (eds.), Montréal: Nota bene, « Indiscipline », 2021.
- QuébeQueer. Le queer dans les productions littéraires, artistiques et médiatiques québécoises, with Isabelle Boisclair and Guillaume Poirier Girard (eds.), Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, « Nouvelles études québécoises », 2020.
- Silence-décomposition. À l’écoute d’une ville, with Stefania Becheanu, Montréal: Nota bene, « Indiscipline », 2017.
- Listening for Jupiter, translated from the French by Arielle Aaronson and Madeleine Stratford, Montréal: Quebec Fiction, 2017.
- Cartographies II : Couronne Nord (ed.), Montréal: La Mèche, 2017.
- Cartographies I : Couronne Sud (ed.), Montréal: La Mèche, 2016.
- Les corps extraterrestres, Montréal: Druide, « Écarts », 2015.
- L’équation du temps, Montréal: Druide, « Écarts », 2013
For a complete list of publications, please see Pierre-Luc Landry’s CV
Courses taught
- FRAN 100 – Intensive French I
- FRAN 180 – Intensive French IV
- FRAN 265 – Global French Connections
- MDIA 300 – Critical Media Practice
- FRAN 310 – Literature, Media and Culture II
- FRAN 336 – Québec and Francophone Cinema (in English)
- FRAN 378 – Creative Writing in French
- FRAN 394 – Children’s and Young Adult Literature in French
- FRAN 418 – Québec Literature and Culture of the Extrême Contemporain
- FRAN 426 – Indigenous Literatures of Canada or the Francophone World
- FRAN 500A – Introduction to Theory and Research Methods
- FRAN 500B – Application of Research Methods
- FRAN 515 – Studies in Québec or French-Canadian Literatures
- FRAN 590 – Directed Studies: Research-Creation, Conceptual Poetry, and Disability Writing