Benedicte Mauguiere
Title
Professor of French
Department
French and Italian
Information
- (207) 859-4660
- [email protected]
- (207) 859-4405
- Diamond 215
Address
4400 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853
Current Courses
CRS | Title | Sec |
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FR126 | French II | A |
FR126 | French II | B |
FR128 | Cultural Encounters: Engaging with Literature and Media | A |
FR131 | Debating Social Issues | A |
FR361 | Creolization, Culture, and Society in the Indian Ocean Islands | A |
FR493E | Seminar: Creolization, Culture, and Society in the Indian Ocean Islands | A |
Education
Doctorat. Universite Paris IV-Sorbonne
Areas of Expertise
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Postcolonial & Francophone Studies
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Francophone Americas (Quebec, Maine, Louisiana & Caribbean)
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Diaspora and Transnational Studies
- Environmental Humanities
- Digital Humanities
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Indian Ocean and Asia Pacific Cultures and Literatures
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Women & Gender Studies
Personal Information
Benedicte Mauguiere is Professor of French & Francophone Studies; Chair of the Department of French & Italian; Vice-President for the Americas, Association Internationale des Etudes Quebecoises (AIEQ); Past Executive Director of Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones (CIEF). She has an extensive record of publications, she serves on several editorial boards and has received numerous awards.
Current Research
Professor Benedicte Mauguiere's research lies primarily in the area of Francophone, post-colonial, diasporic and transnational studies. Her publications focus on the literature and aesthetics of Francophone cultural production of the Americas and the Indian Ocean islands (Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion). She particularly explores the complex tale of cultural development, colonization, displacement, marginalization, memory and the construction of identity in works of transnational and transcultural writers such as J.M.G. Le Clezio and Ananda Devi. She has published and lectured extensively in North America, Europe, India, Africa, and the Indian ocean.
Publications
Selection of Publications
BOOKS
Cultural Identities in Canadian Literature/Identites culturelles dans la litterature canadienne. New York/ Berlin/London/Paris: Peter Lang.
Traversee des ideologies et exploration des identites dans les ecritures de femmes au Quebec. New York/ Berlin/London/Paris: Peter Lang. Francophone Cultures and Literatures Series 17.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
- "Imaginaire diasporique et deuil impossible des origines dans Les Fous de Bhowani et La maison de Weng Chen". Ecrivaines de l'Ile Maurice et de La Réunion: tisser des fils épars. V. Magdelaine Andrianjafitrimo (Ed.). Lecce (Italy): Presses de l'Alliance Française. 201-213
- "Francophone Literatures of the Indian Ocean". The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literatures. Vol. 2. Ed. F. Abiola Irele. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 569-583.
- "Literatures in European Languages: Francophone Indian Ocean Africa". New Encyclopedia of Africa., Vol. 3. Eds. John Middleton; Joseph C. Miller. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons. 397-399.
- "Le Clézio et l'hindouisme". Dictionnaire Le Clézio. Marina Salles (Ed.). Editions Passages. Paris.
- "Transgendered Identities in Anne Hebert's Un habit de lumiere and Pedro Almodovar s All About my Mother." Anne Hebert: Essays on her Works. Ed. L. Skallerup. Writers Series. U. of Alberta/Editions Guernica.
- "Enjeux critiques des litteratures indiaoceaniques pour les etudes francophones". Les etudes francaises et francophones dans un panorama plurilingue. AITF et Agence Universitaire de la francophonie (AUF). Ed. K. Madanagobalane. Samita Publications. University of Chennai (Madras)/Pondichery, India. 187-197.
- "L'Habit de lumiere ou le corps travesti chez Anne Hebert. L'Ecriture du corps dans la litterature quebecoise. Limoges: Presses de l'Universite de Limoges (Pulim), France. 227-235.
- "La philosophie orientale du cycle de vie et de mort dans La Quarantaine" .J.M.G. Le Clezio: Intertextualites, Interculturalites. Eds. S. Bertocchi-Jollin; B. Thibault. St. Quentin: Editions de Universite de Versailles. 105-118.
- "Le mythe de Robinson revisite par Tournier et Le Clezio". L'ocean Indien dans les litteratures francophones. Ed. V.Hookoomsingh. Paris: Karthala et Presses de l'Universite de Maurice/Mauritius University Press. Mauritius. 463-474.
- "Memory, Identity and Otherness in Contemporary Women s Writing in Quebec". Women by Women: the Treatment of Female Characters by Quebec Women Writers. Ed. R. Dufault. London/Camden, N.J: Associated University Presses. 54-67.
- "Metaphores alimentaires et mythes de creation chez Jovette Marchessault". La Reecriture du mythe au feminin. Eds. M. Zupankic & J. Cauville. Amsterdam (Netherlands): Rodopi. 177-187.
- "La Noyante ou la subversion du mythe d'Ophelie". L'eau, source d une ecriture dans la litterature feminine francophone. Ed. Y. Helm. New-York/London/Paris/Berlin: Peter Lang Publishing. 52-63.
- "Ananda Devi" . Passages et Ancrages en France: Dictionnaire des ecrivains migrants de langue francaise (1981-2011). Ed. Ursula Mathis-Moser. Paris: Honore Champion.
- "Helene Ouvrard". Dictionnaire des femmes de langue francaise. Ed. C. Makward. Paris: Karthala/AIF: 453-454.
SELECTION OF ARTICLES
- "Minorisation linguistique et emergence d'un theatre Cadien et Franco-Americain en francais vernaculaire." Francophone North-American Theater. Ed. Rachel Killick. Special Issue. International Journal of Francophone Studies 11. 2: 201-214.
- "Humour, fantastique et intertextualité parodique chez le Clezio et Amal Sewtohul". Rires amers dans les littératures et productions filmiques réunionnaises et mauriciennes V. Magdelaine and Mar Garcia (Eds.). Editions K'A. Ille-sur-Tet, France. 71-81
- "Michele Rakotoson" . Passages et Ancrages en France: Dictionnaire des ecrivains migrants de langue francaise (1981-2011). Ed. Ursula Mathis-Moser. Paris: Honore Champion.
- "Mythe et Epopee de la descente du Gange dans La Quarantaine de J.M.G Le Clezio". Special Issue J.M.G Le Clezio. Europe, 957-958: 161-167.
- "La Legende de la descente du Gange revue par Le Clezio". Rencontre avec l'Inde 37, 1. New Delhi, India: 26-35.
- "Strategies de creation et subversion des categories de genre chez Anne Hebert et Pedro Almodovar". Theories et pratiques de la creation, Special Issue. Cahiers internationaux de symbolisme 107-108-109, Centre interdisciplinaire d'etudes philosophiques. Universite de Mons, Belgium: 93-106.
- "Le Clezio: La Francophonie et la question postcoloniale". Co-authored with Bruno Thibault. Introduction to the Special Issue Jean-Marie Le Clezio. Nouvelles Etudes Francophones 20. 2: 9-15.
- "L'Auteur(e) et ses doubles: la recherche de l Inconnu de la Seine/scene dans L'Enfant charge de Songes". Cahiers Anne Hebert 4, Sherbrooke: Universite de Sherbrooke. Quebec: 115-128.
- "L'Homo/textualite dans les ecritures de femmes au Quebec (1965-1995)". The French Review: 1036-1047.
- "Les etudes canadiennes et quebecoises en Louisiane: problemes et pespectives". Canadian Studies at Home and Abroad Special Issue. Themes canadiens/Canadian Issues 17. Ed. J. Lenox. Montreal: 103-112.
- "Sexualite, tabou et mythe de reproduction chez Michel Tournier". Etudes Francophones: 41-55.
- "Le Theatre Cadien: De l Acadie a la Louisiane". Presence Francophone 43: 75-84.
- "L'imaginaire feminin dans Le Corps etranger d Helene Ouvard: A la recherche d une mythologie". Quebec Studies 14:105-113.
- "Mythe, symbole et Ideologie du pays dans La Noyante d'Helene Ouvrard". The French Review 65, 5: 754-764.
- "Ideologies et ecritures des femmes au Quebec: la quete d'une identite". Presence Francophone 39:111-125.
- "Critique litteraire feministe americaine et ecriture des femmes au Quebec". The French Review 63, 4: 632-641.
- "La quete d'une identite mauricienne: Robert-Edward Hart et l'Orientalisme". Dires (Canadian Journal of Culture and Literature). Special Issue on La Francophonie, 8: 1:121-134.