My research and practice explores translation as an embodied encounter between different modes of expression and the interconnectedness of text, body, and performance as they relate to the environment and aural/oral experiences (sound poetry, homophonics, non-human languages). I have written two books, L’inhumain poétique (2022), a critical study of ontophonics and ontographics in 20th century French poetry, and Walter Benjamin (2015), an essayistic exploration of the reverberations of Benjamin’s ideas for 21st century thought and practice. Collaboratively and individually, I have translated essay and poems from a variety of writers and historial periods, and have been a resident at the Collège international des traducteurs littéraires, in Arles, France. My research-creation projects examine intersections of eco-poetics, translation, and the body. In 2020 I co-founded the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective, which seeks to renegotiate relationships within and across languages and media via collaborative seminars, workshops, and performances. I am co-editor of Brock’s Small Walker Press and I teach French courses on translation, literature, and language. Current projects include a book on ornithography and zoopoetics, and comparative studies of Korean poetry translated into English and French.
Refus Global Three Ways,” International Journal of Surrealism, Vol. 2, Issue 1, November 2024.
“Poetics of Vulnerability: Stéphane Bouquet and Marie-Claire Bancquart Writing as Exploring the Limits of Collective and Singular Bodies,” in Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film, eds. C. M. Gámez-Fernández and M. Fernández-Santiago, Routledge, New York, 2023, 93-105.
“Louis Wolfson et la traduction plurilinguistique, ou comment se mettre à l’abri dans l’espace rhizomique,” Dalhousie French Studies, Vol. 122, Fall 2022, 51-59.
L’Inhumain poétique, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, 2022, 224 p.
Walter Benjamin: un essai, Les Éditions Sémaphore, Montréal, 2015, 96 pp.
FREN 1F90 Intermediate French
FREN 2F00 Grammar and Composition
FREN 3P05 Business French I
FREN 3P06 Translation I
FREN 3P53 Twentieth-Century French Literature to 1935
FREN 3P95 French Literature and Culture in Film
FREN 4P04 Translation II: Applications
SCLA 5P01 Comparative Critical Theory in Literature and the Arts
SCLA 5P02 Comparative Methodologies