Louise-Hélène Filion

At the Residential College, Dr. Louise-Hélène Filion teaches in the French, German, and Arts & Ideas in the Humanities programs. Louise-Hélène studied in Canada, France, and Germany, and has previously taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Universität des Saarlandes in Germany. 

Louise-Hélène is a specialist in Québec literature and culture and an adept generalist, having taught French as a second language at all levels, as well as courses on Francophone literatures since 2013, including a course on Migrant Writing in Québec offered as a post-proficiency Readings Course at the Residential College. She also maintains an active German Studies research agenda and teaches First Year Intensive German and a Readings seminar on German graphic novels and migration. 

Louise-Hélène has done extensive research on perceptions of Germany in Québec Literature and Culture, which has led to the publication of her first monograph in 2021 by Éditions Nota bene in Montréal: Les usages littéraires de Thomas Bernhard et de Peter Handke au Québec: Les modalités d’une affiliation interculturelle. With Robert Dion and Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, she also co-edited on related topics an issue of the trilingual journal Eurostudia. Transatlantic Journal for European Studies. 

Findings from her research on contemporary intercultural literature from Québec and Germany have been published in French, English, and German in peer-reviewed journals such as: Littératures; Voix et Images; Zeitschrift für Kanada Studien; and Seminar. They have also appeared in Canadian and German collections, such as Traces des cultures germaniques dans l'imaginaire canadien-français et québécois (Presses de l'Université Laval, 2024).