Josette Brun

Biography

From her childhood to Cap-Pelé, in Acadia, she kept the sense of the open sea. The sea, the horizon and far away, the other civilizations. Has always had an interest in the past. The story to come out of its comfort, to confront other values, to say no to the evidences. Josette Brun is a woman of contrasts: she loves the monastic spirit that requires work in the archives as she likes to "give the show" in front of 120 students. Shy, she's rushing. She likes to put herself in danger. This is what led her into communication. First a journalist, she was also a journalist. She describes her current career as a "fusion career", a combination of her two fields of training: history and communication. She has a predilection for the history of women, the place of women in the media. She teaches media history, writing, social sex relationships in the media. In her doctoral and postdoctoral studies, Josette Brun examined the lives of married and widowed people in the 18th century, which she describes in her book Vie et mort du couple in New France. If, since its involvement with the Department, history is no longer an object of research, it has become a critical perspective, a methodological tool. She has just managed a collective entitled Women's Interrelationships in French America, of which she is particularly pleased. She has also begun a project that is close to her heart: the analysis of the television magazine Femme d'aujourd'hui , broadcast by Radio-Canada between 1965 and 1982. "Petite, I was watching this show with my mother and my grandfather "Mother," Josette Brun said, his eyes shining. The past and the present intertwine, it is so stimulating! "

Research Interest

Gender, Family and Mutual Assistance in New France: Widows and Widows and Orphans in Eighteenth-Century Quebec"