Professor
Cross-appointed:
Modern Languages (French)
Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture
cparayre@brocku.ca
905 688 5550 x4849
Catherine’s research, teaching and outreach endeavours are intertwined and continuous. She aims to provide her students with fluid and thought-provoking instruction as they build essential skills to explore contemporary culture through the role of observer, creator and performer.
Ph. D., Romance Languages, The University of Georgia (USA)
Graduate Certificate, Women’s Studies, The University of Georgia
MA French Literature, The University of Kansas
DEA Literatures and Cultures of English-Speaking Countries,
Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III, France
DEUG, Licence, Maîtrise English, Université Paul Valéry
- Contemporary Occitan Literature
- Arts and Culture
- Artist’s books
Scholarly volumes
8 visites contemporaines au Centre d’art de Rodman Hall (St. Catharines, Région du Niagara). St. Catharines: Rodman Hall Art Centre, 2019. 60 p.
Parayre, Catherine, and Leslie Boldt. Figuring It Out: Disfigurement in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Art and Literature. St. Catharines: Niagara Artist Centre, 2014, 6 n.p. magazines, 20 posters, box, envelope.
La mort au féminin: Philadelphe de Gerde, Calelhon, Clardeluno et Farfantello racontent. Turnhout: Brepols, 2004, 194 p.
Artist’s books
Parayre, Catherine and Ramona Schnekenburger. Membrane. Vienna: Salon für Kunstbuch, 2024. 40 p.
Parayre, Catherine, Shawn Serfas, Paul Savoie, Angela Cozea, Thomas Ayouti, Alexander Christie, and Nicholas Hauck. (Im)mobilités. Ed. Nicholas Hauck. Saint Catharines, ON / Vienna, Austria: Small Walker Press / Salon für Kunstbuch, 2023. 80 pages, 9 illustrations.
Das Klebstoff-Experiment. Vienna: Salon für Kunstbuch, 2020. 160 p.
A Sad Peninsula. St. Catharines: Niagara Arts Centre, 2016, 30 p.
Art catalogues
Parayre, Catherine, ed. A River Rises. Research Centre for Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Culture, 2021. 12 p.
Parayre, Catherine and Reinhard Reitzenstein, ed. Silo City, Buffalo, NY. Post-Industrial Ephemera: Soundings, Gestures and Poetics. St. Catharines: Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, 2018, 33 p.
- STAC 3P01 – Media Transformations in the Creative Arts
- STAC 3P97 – Publishing: Creative Elements and Editorial Process
- STAC 3P99 – Interpretive and Critical Writing in the Arts
- FREN 4P79 – Text and Image in Literature in French
- SCLA 5P01 – Contemporary Approaches to Comparative Literature
- SCLA 5P03 – Critical Theory and the Arts
- SCLA 5P69 – Disability in Literature and the Arts: Sites of Resistance
