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 […]
In June 2019, Professor of French Scott Powers assumed the presidency of the Association for Canadian and Quebecois Literatures. After completing a two-year term as Francophone Vice-President, Powers will lead the executive committee in all affairs related to the ALCQ for the next two years, including the organization of its annual conference and the awarding […]
Professor of French Scott Powers presented his current research on the role of animals in contemporary feminist Quebecois fiction at the annual conference of the ACQL: The Association for Canadian and Quebecois Literatures. The title of his paper was “L’éco-poétique d’Audrée Wilhelmy: le devenir-animal de la femme dans Le corps des bêtes.”
The journal Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne published Powers’ essay entitled “Tu n’as pas à te sentir coupable: A Multiversal Approach to Gaétan Soucy’s L’Acquittement” in its Fall 2018 volume.
