Professor of French Scott Powers has published an article in the American Review of Canadian Studies titled “Du cliché antique à l’éthique écologique: la chasse parodiée et renversée dans La Rage de Louis Hamelin.”The article examines how Québec writer Louis Hamelin uses the motif of hunting in his 1989 novel La Rage to challenge traditional […]
Professor of French Scott M. Powers and Associate Professor of French Julien Defraeye (St. Thomas University) co-edited a special volume exploring the ethical dimensions of Indigenous and non-Indigenous hunting traditions in contemporary Quebec, as represented in recent Québécois novels. The volume, Entre proie et prédateur : le récit de chasse dans la littérature québécoise, was […]
Scott Powers, Professor of French, published an essay on ecofeminism in contemporary fiction of Quebec entitled “L’écoféminisme d’Audrée Wilhelmy. Le ‘devenir-animal’ de la femme dans Le corps des bêtes.” The essay appears as a chapter in the edited volume Animal et animalité : stratégies de représentation dans les littératures d’expression française (Classiques Garnier, 2022).
Professor of French Scott Powers published an article entitled “Human Violence and Eating Animals: Reading Gaétan Soucy through the Lenses of Vegan and Animal Studies” in the most recent volume of Dalhousie French Studies.
Professor of French Scott Powers’ essay, published in June 2020 in the journal Québec Studies, and entitled “Secularity, the Animal Other, and the ‘Fragilized’ Text in the works of Jean-François Beauchemin,” draws on secularization theory and animal studies to examine the works of Jean-François Beauchemin as unresolved negotiations between the religious and the secular.
