Christine Duff
Associate Professor
Department of French
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Christine was born in Toronto into an anglophone family. She grew up on the West Coast and completed her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Victoria. Between these two degrees, she lived in France, working at a Paris lycée as a language assistant. During her Master’s studies, Christine discovered African and Caribbean literatures in French and has never looked back: she decided to pursue a Ph.D. with Frederick Ivor Case at the University of Toronto. In 2003, she earned her doctorate and she arrived in the French Department at Carleton the following year.
Research Interest
The zombie figure in literature Caribbean literature in French African literature in French (north and south of the Sahara) Literary representation of psychic processes Vodou in literature Postcolonial literary theory
Publications
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Looking Back to Move Forward : The Counter-Poetics of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction.†Journal of Caribbean Literatures 3.2 (Spring 2002) : 23-35.
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Pour une relecture de Zoune chez sa ninnaine de Justin Lhérisson.†Dans Francophonie littéraire du Sud : un divers singulier . Sous la direction de Najib Redouane. Paris : L’Harmattan, septembre 2006.
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Where Literature Fills the Gaps: Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes as a Canadian Work of Re-Memory.†Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne 36:2 (2011) 237-254.
