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Biography / Biographie

Dr. Jorge Calder贸n is a specialist in 20^th and 21^st French and Qu茅b茅cois literature and cultural studies. He works mainly in the fields of gender and queer theory, sexual diversity studies, and biopolitics. He trained in French studies at Universit茅 de Montr茅al, Queen鈥檚 University, and McGill University. He also studied in Paris at the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure, the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Universit茅 Paris 7 and Paris 8. Dr. Calder贸n has published on existentialism, the nouveau roman, AIDS writing and contemporary literature. He is the co-editor of Representations of First Nations and M茅tis in Canada and Qu茅bec, Questionner l鈥檈space des fronti猫res, Queer Frontiers in Canadian and Qu茅b茅cois Literature, and Queer Bodies. He is past president of the Canadian Association of University and College Teachers of French and also past vice-president of the Association for Canadian and Qu茅bec Literatures. He is currently working on a book about queer bodies, spaces, temporalities, and affects. He is also working on the research project 鈥淐orporalit茅 et sexualit茅 queer au Canada et au Qu茅bec,鈥� with the 脡quipe de recherche en 茅tudes queer au Qu茅bec (EREQQ). He is interested in the cultural constructions of identities and otherness; multicultural, intercultural and transnational relations; migrant narratives and globalization. He has organized 14 national and international conferences, among them: Queer Sexualities in Canada and Qu茅bec (Universit茅 de Montr茅al, 2022), Queer Art Performance (UQ脌M, 2018), Feeling Queer/Queer Feeling, (University of Toronto, 2017), Masculin/F茅minin: La performativit茅 du genre dans la litt茅rature qu茅b茅coise depuis la R茅volution tranquille (丁香园AV, 2017), Engagement local/Engagement global (丁香园AV, 2016). He has been the senior supervisor of 2 Ph.D. students and 19 M.A students in a variety of fields in French, Qu茅b茅cois, and Francophone studies.

Research Interests

• 20^th- and 21^st-Century French and Qu茅b茅cois Literature, Cinema & Cultural Studies
• Literary & Cultural Theory: Gender Theory, Queer Theory, Affect Theory, Performance Theory, Biopolitics
• Migration, Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Globalisation

Int茅r锚ts de recherche

• Litt茅rature, cin茅ma et 茅tudes culturelles fran莽ais et qu茅b茅cois des 20^e et 21^e 蝉颈猫肠濒别蝉
• Th茅orie litt茅raire et culturelle : th茅orie du genre, queer, de l鈥檃ffect, de la performance et biopolitique
• Migration, nationalisme, transnationalisme et globalisation

Education / 脡ducation

• Ph.D., McGill University
• Ancien pensionnaire de l'脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure, Paris
• M.A., Queen's University
• B.A., Universit茅 de Montr茅al