Adina Balint
Associate Professor
Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Winnipeg
Canada
Biography
Adina Balint holds a PhD in modern and contemporary French literature from the University of Toronto (2009). Her academic research explores the intersection of literature, cultural studies and visual arts, focusing on questions of transculturalism, subjectivity and the ethics of the self-other relationship. She published articles on topics such as: the poetics of literary creation, identity and multiculturalism, history and memory, life experiences in relation to artistic projects (M. Proust, JMG Le Clézio, P. Modiano, R. Robin, N. Huston, C. Mavrikakis, G. Didi-Huberman). She currently works on a project on 21st-century narratives and iconographic representations of the process of creation in Canada and the Americas (USA, Brazil, Mexico).
Research Interest
20th and 21st-century French and Francophone literature; Literature and Visual Arts; Inter/Multi/Transculturalism; Autobiographical/Autofictional Writing; Genocide Studies; Psychoanalytic theories.
