Kenneth Meadwell

Biography

Kenneth Meadwell, lecturer in French literature of Canada, literary theory, terminology and translation for thirty years at the University of Winnipeg. He served as chair for thirteen years, and has been an Invited Professor of Canadian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Duke University and La Universidad de La Laguna in Spain, as well as the external evaluator at MA and PhD thesis defenses. With over 100 articles and 3 books to his credit, including a much-heralded monograph on the mysterious Quebec novelist, Réjean Ducharme, Professor Meadwell has been Director and Treasurer for the French Alliance of Manitoba, Francophone Canadian Literature Editor for The Literary Encyclopedia, a frequent reviser of curriculum materials for Manitoba's French Bureau of Education, Adjunct Professor with the Master's Program in Canadian Studies at the University of St. Boniface, member of the pilot team overseeing the creation of the curricular project, Building Futures in Manitoba / Building a Future in Manitoba, Vice-President of Les Éditions du Ble, the oldest francophone publishing firm in Western Canada, and evaluator for such agencies and journals at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Laval University Press , Quebec Research Fund and Quebec Studies . In 2013, Professor Meadwell was named a Knight in the Order of Academic Palms of the French Republic for his remarkable and longstanding contribution to the promotion of French literature, language and culture. In 2014, the University of Winnipeg's Emeritus of French Studies in the University of Winnipeg . In 2015, he served as a jury member for the Governor General's Award in the "Essays" category. Professor Meadwell continues his research in the construction of identity through memory and its effects on subjectivity. He also continued his peripatetic adventures, dividing much of his time between Paris and Buenos Aires.

Research Interest

French literature of Canada; modern and contemporary Quebec novel; literary theory; modern poetry of France; alterity, subjectivity and identity.