Louise-Hélène Filion

At the Residential College, Dr. Louise-Hélène Filion teaches in the French Intensive Language program, the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities program and the First-Year Writing Seminar program.     

Louise-Hélène received her PhD in Literary Studies from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2017, offered in co-supervision with the University of Saarland (Universität des Saarlandes, Germany). Her research on modern and contemporary Quebec literature and culture focuses on intercultural issues, including imagology, theories of cross-cultural communication and of cross-cultural intertextuality, theories of cultural transfer, and reception studies. She has done extensive research on perceptions of German-language cultures in Quebec Literature and Culture, which has led to the publication of her first monograph in 2021 by Éditions Nota bene in Montreal: Les usages littéraires de Thomas Bernhard et de Peter Handke au Québec: Les modalités d’une affiliation interculturelle. Most recently, she co-edited Modernités connectées: Les transferts littéraires et culturels Québec-Allemagne (XIX^e-XXI^e siècles), published by Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal (2026). Findings from her research on contemporary intercultural literature from Quebec and Germany have been published in French, English, and German in peer-reviewed journals such as: Littératures; Voix et Images; Eurostudia, Zeitschrift für Kanada Studien; and Seminar. They have also appeared in Canadian and German collections. 

During her postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan, she pursued her interest in cultural representations of cars. The research collaborations she had the pleasure of developing in the region that put the world on wheels inspired her two latest RC courses: “Road Trippin': New Takes on the North American Travel Narrative,” and “Road Narratives Reclaimed.”