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I received my PhD in French Studies from Western University in 2009 and my MA in French from the same institution in 2004.
Prior to joining Laurier, I was a lecturer in the Department of French Studies at Western University, and I also worked as a research assistant for Alain Goldschläger (awarded the Order of Academic Palms, 2013), director of The Holocaust Literature Research Institute at Western University.
The main focus of my research is looking into what makes “migrant writing” (écriture migrante) a genre in itself, with its own specific literary features, and asserting that it is not a mere literary trend associated with the author’s immigration circumstances. My current research also includes exploring the concepts of “américanité” and “amérilatinité” in Canadian literature.
- WLUFA Merit Award for Research 2020
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Member of the Executive Board of the A.I.E.L.C.E.F. / International Association for the study of Francophone Literatures and Cultures (Western/ McGill)
- 2012 Nominated as a candidate for the John Charles Polanyi Prize by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University.
- 2012 - 2020 Member of the Editorial Board of “Les Cahiers du G.R.E.L.C.E.F.”, the review of the Research and Teaching Group on Francophone Literatures and Cultures.
- 2007-2008 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship: $20,000.
Books Authored
- Pruteanu, Simona. L'écriture migrante en France et au Québec (1985-2006): une analyse comparative. München: Lincom Europa. 168 pages. ISBN 9783862884117. (2013)
Edited Volume
- Mielusel, Ramona and Simona, E. Pruteanu (eds). Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America. Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Articles
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2020. “Framing the Immigration Discourse and Drawing the Citizen: Concrete Representations of the ‘Migration Crisis’ in Comics Journalism”. Mielusel and Pruteanu (eds.) Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America. Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration. Palgrave Macmillan : 217-233.
- Mielusel, Ramona and Simona E. Pruteanu. “Introduction: The Realities of Multicultural Societies”. Mielusel and Pruteanu (eds.) Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America. Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 : 1-14.
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2020. “Les biofictions à l’ère du numérique : les hypertextes d’Alain Farah et d’Alain Beaulieu”. Nouvelle Revue Synergies Canada, no. 13 Objets de l’écrivain: images, usages, représentations depuis le XIXe siècle à nos jours. En-ligne s. p. https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nrsc/article/view/5351
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2017. “Cooking, Language, and Memory in Farhoud’s Le Bonheur a la queue glissante and Thúy’s Mãn. ”. “New Work on Immigration and Identity in Contemporary France, Québec, and Ireland. Ed. Dervila Cooke. Thematic Issue CLCweb: Comparative Literature and Culture 18. (6280 words)
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2016. “Les secrets d’une famille peuvent cacher les traumatismes de tout un pays”. Le Secret de famille dans le roman contemporain. Patricia Bissa Enama et Nathalie Fontane Wacker (dir.). Clermont-Ferrand (France) : Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal. 31-49.
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2016. “ Entre l’Amérique du Nord et l’Amérique du Sud – création d’un nouveau métarécit québécois dans trois romans d'Alain Beaulieu ”. Special 40th Anniversary Issue of Studies in Canadian Literature/ Etudes en Littérature Canadienne 41.1: 143-162.
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2015. “ l’Amérique du Sud en Amérique du Nord ou la conquête d’un espace alternatif: L’écriture transmigrante chez Francine Noël et Daniel Castillo Durante”. Migrations / Translations. Sous la direction de Maroussia Ahmed, Corinne Alexandre-Garner, Nicholas Serruys, Iulian Toma et Isabelle Keller-Privat. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest. 295-309.
Peer Reviewed Presentations
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2020. « Suivre le lilas et l’engoulement d’Amérique – vers une identité transmigrante dans La route du lilas par Éric Dupont ». 20th/21st French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Lincoln, Nebraska (cancelled due to COVID019). Presentation and abstract available on-line. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ffsc2020/11/
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2019. « L’autofiction à l’ère du numérique : Alain Farah et @alain.farah ». A.P.F.U.C.C., Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, May 31st-June 4th, 2019, Vancouver.
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2018. "Biofiction in Comics Journalism: Droit du sol and Clandestino-un reportage d’Hubert Paris, envoyé spécial”. 7th International Conference on Image and Imagery 2018, Brock University, St. Catharines.
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2017. “Représentation du « système migratoire » dans Les Tribulations d’Alphonse Madiba dit Daudet” (B.D. scénario Edimo et dessin Al’Mata). A.P.F.U.C.C., Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ryerson University, Toronto.
- Pruteanu, Simona. 2015. “Rendre compte d’un état de migrance : le cas des nouveaux romans métahistoriques au Québec”. A.P.F.U.C.C. Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa.
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