About
In September 2019, Dr. Louise-Hélène Filion joined the Residential College as a Lecturer in the French program. Louise-Hélène received her B.A. in French Studies (2008) and M.A. in French-Language Literature (2010) degrees from the Université de Montréal, which included one year studying abroad at the Université Paris VII-Denis-Diderot (2007-2008).
She graduated summa cum laude from a PhD program in literary studies convened jointly by the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Universität des Saarlandes, receiving both Canadian and German qualifications. Subsequently, Louise-Hélène was a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the Universität des Saarlandes (2017-2018) and a Québec government-sponsored postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan from 2018-2022.
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 offers a course on “German Graphic Literature and Migration” in the RC German program.
Her special research interest is in intercultural approaches to modern and contemporary Québec literature and culture, 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 Germany in Québec 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.
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; Eurostudia; Zeitschrift für Kanada Studien; and Seminar. They have also appeared in German collections, such as Klassik als kulturelle Praxis:Funktional, intermedial, transkulturell (De Gruyter, 2019).
