Contact Information:

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages

Email: jpallis@dacor.net

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Canadian Studies Program Activities: 

• Canadian Studies Advisory Committee, 1988-present;
• Founder and Creative Director, Pallister Francophone Canadian Lecture Series;
• Guest lecturer, CAST 201– Introduction to Canadian Studies;
• Directed M.A. theses; outside member of Ph.D. dissertations.

Research/Teaching Specializations: 

• Québécois literature; Acadian and Cajun literature;
• Québécois (French and Acadian; women directors’) cinema.

Conference Activities/Seminars: 

• “Exile and Alienation in Francophone Women Film directors" Address delivered at University of Toronto, March 2006
• Organized session on Women Film Directors (Pool, Charf, Pelletier and Benguigui), Le Conseil International d'Études Francophones Convention (CIEF), Ottawa-Gatineau, June 2005.
• “Anne Hébert et Guylaine Dionne: le fou de Bassan (ou morus bassanus) en tant que symbole,” presented at Le Conseil International d'Études Francophones Convention (CIEF), New Orleans, 2003.
• Canadian Studies Faculty Retreat, 2002.
• “La Corriveau et Anne Hébert: Etat d’Études,” invited presentation at Colloque Anne Hébert, University of Québec in Sherbrooke, PQ, June 1999.
• Organized and presided over panel “La Femme devant la justice,” presented at the CIEF Convention, Lafayette, LA, 1998.

Recent Publications:

• “Francophone Women Directors (Shorts),” The French Review, May 2006.
• Film review of Les Passeurs, directed by Hejer Charf, in The French Review, April 2006.
• Film review of La Grande Séduction, directed by Jean-Francois Pouliot, in The French Review, December 2005.
• “Anne Hébert et Guylaine Dionne: Deux Interprétations opposées des mêmes Fous de Bassan,” Women in French Studies, Spring 2005.
• Francophone Women Film Directors, A New Guide (French, Acadian, Québec, Belgian, etc.), co-authored with Ruth Hottell, Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2005.
• Francophone Women Documentarians, co-authored with Ruth Hottell, Peter Lang Pub. Inc., 2005.
• “The role of the Morus Bassanus in Anne Hébert et Guylaine Dionne,” in Women in French Studies, 2005.
• “Maillet’s 8ème jour,” and “Chiasson’s Vous,” Dictionary of Acadian Literature, 2005.
• Book Review of Roseline Tremblay, L’écrivain imaginaire: Essai sur le roman québécois, 1960-1995, (Collection Cahiers du Québec,) for ARCS, 2005.
• Review of Jean-François Pouliot’s La Grande Séduction, in French Review, 2005.
• Book Review of Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures, Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, 2003, Kamil Salhi, ed., in French Review, April 2005.
• Book Review of Syrotinski, Singular Performance, in French Review, March 2005.
• The Art and Genius of Anne Hebert: Essays on Her Works [Night and the Day are One], Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, Associated University Presses, NJ, 2001.
• L’Acadie au féminin, Éditions d’Acadie, Moncton, NB, October 2000.
• A bilingual edition of Pallister’s poems – Balayages/Brushings, Ying Chen, ed., featured on the electronic journal Varia, at <www.varia.org>.
• “Evolution de l’oeuvre d’Antonine Maillet,” in Éditions d’Acadie, Denis Bourque, ed., Moncton, NB, 2000.
• “Cahiers Anne Hébert,” in La Corriveau Vol. 4, 2003.
• “Anne Hébert’s Mothers, Daughters and Gardens,” in Anthology of Essays on Canadian Literature, Susan Rosenstreich, ed., Summer 1998.
• French-Speaking Women Film Directors, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Associated University Presses, Fall 1997.
• The Cinema of Québec, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Associated University Presses, 1995.
• “Léa Pool’s Gynefilms,” in Essays on Québec Cinema, Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr., ed., Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, MI, 1991.
• “Antonine Maillet’s Evangeline Deusse,” in ARCS, Summer/ Fall 1988.