Dr. Mary LeMaître
Title: Instructor III of French Studies
Phone: 204-786-9460
Office: 3C36
Email: ma.lemaitre@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Dr. Mary LeMaître holds a PhD in 20th Century French Literature, 18th Century French Literature, and Catholic Studies specializing in the analysis of social discourse, a Master's in Medieval French Literature, a pre-Master's in Speech Pathology, and a B.A. French Honours (with Cree and Spanish). She has been teaching at U of W since 2010. She loves teaching and writing books! Since attending the TRC in Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2010, she has turned the focus of her research towards Residential Schools, the treaties, The Indian Act, and colonial discourse, that is, stereotypes about Indigenous Canadians: what they are, where they come from, how they affect our relationship, and how we can change them. Dr. LeMaître is a member of the Meet Me @ The Bell Tower family, the Communications person for KAIROS in the Cambrian-Agassiz Region (MB and S-W ON) as well as a member of the Returning To Spirit Board of Directors. Dr. LeMaître is also a dancer. She has studied ballet, modern, Highland, flamenco, Bharatanatyam, and performed and gives workshops on Liturgical Dance.
Teaching Areas:
French language and grammar, writing, Business French.
Courses:
- Elementary French 3 (FREN-1103)
- Intermediate French 1 (FREN-1104)
- Intermediate French 2 (FREN-2105)
- Composition and Grammar (FREN-2110)
- Business French (FREN-2116)
- Decolonizing Voices: Francophone Indigenous Literature (FREN-3609)
Research Interests:
Social discourse analysis, colonial discourse, colonialism, Bernanos.
Publications:
The Secret Life of French Verbs and Other Sentence Parts (2011); Perfect Your French: 500+ anglicisms, faux, amis, and vocabulary errors to avoid (2015); Au Bureau: Naviguer le monde des affaires en français (2016).
"You are. I have met you." Red Rising, Issue 2, Jan. 28, 2016. Work in progress: a book on colonial discourse in Canada.