• Displacement.
• Graphic novel & bande dessinée: (im)migrant/refugee narratives, testimonials, (de)colonial history & politics, marginality.
• (Im)Migrant/Refugee identity: gender roles, trauma, diaspora, queer identity, alterity.
• “Beur” artistic output: literature, film, music, sequential art.
• Post-colonial Francophone literatures (Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Caribbean), with a special interest in the depiction of marginal subjects.
• Cultural, religious & linguistic métissage.

“Am I the ‘Monster’, or Are You? The Representation of the (In)Human in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine”, eBook of the 7th Global Conference on Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, September 14-17, 2009, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, UK.

“Construction identitaire ‘beur’ dans la bande dessinée Black Blanc Beur: Les folles années de l’intégration de Farid Boudjellal et Larbi Mechkour” in Quo Vadis Romania, Austria, 41/2013, pp.83-93.

Im/migrant Passages: Crossing Visual, Spatial and Textual Boundaries. Editors C. Colella, T. El-Hoss and C. Parayre, St. Catharines, Small Walker Press. (July 2020)

“(Im)Migration dans la bande dessinée: cours universitaire”, in Quo Vadis Romania, Austria, 49/2017, pp.44.59.

“Julie Delporte: dévoilement par le biais du texte et de l’image”, in Voix Plurielles, Vol.10, No 2 (2013).

“Maghrebian Diaspora and Immigrant Identity in Farid Boudjellal’s L’Oud: La Trilogie”, in Framescapes: Graphic Narrative Intertexts, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, UK, 2016, pp.185-191.

Undergraduate:

• FREN 2F03     Literature and Culture: The French-Speaking World
• FREN 2P55     Francophone Cultures and Civilizations
• FREN 2P65     Culture and Civilization of France to 1700
• FREN 3P20     Oral French Workshop
• FREN 3P53     Twentieth-Century French Literature to 1935
• FREN 3P65     Culture and Civilization of France from 1700 to the Present
• FREN 3P83     African Literature in French
• FREN 3P84     Caribbean Literature in French
• FREN 3P87     Maghrebian Literature in French
• FREN 3Q90     Postcolonial (North) African Literature in French
• FREN 4P65     (Im)Migrant Identity in Bande Dessinée
• FREN 4P80     “Beur” Literature and Film
• FREN 4P96     Critical Theory and Methodology
• SCLC 4P00     Comparative Studies in Narratives and the Arts

Graduate:

• SCLA 5P01     Comparative Critical Theory in Literature and the Arts
• SCLA 5P02     Comparative Methodologies (team taught)
• SCLA 5P79     The Depiction of the Caribbean and African Exotic

Baird, Miranda (2011)
Unveiling the Mind, Body and Space: Exposing (In)Visible Borders Facing Maghrebian Women and “Beurettes”.

Barlow, Amy (2018)
Choosing the Path of (Least) Resistance: (Non)conformism in the French Banlieue.

Bews, Kristin (2018)
The Real McKenzies and The Marginalising Discourse of Highlandism

Cairns, David (2014)
Worldly Literature: Analyzing Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English.

Kristiansen, Linda (2012)
The Graphic Novel Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s ”The Raven” and Bill Watterson’s Inspired ”A Nauseous Nocturne”.

Mom, Vanna (2016)
Cambodian National Identity 1975-1979:  Who Wants To Be A Revolutionary?

Tigchelaar, Alex (2016)
Whorientalism.

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