Dr Loïc Bourdeau
Biography
Loïc Bourdeau is Lecturer in French Studies at National University of Ireland, Maynooth and formerly College of Liberal Arts Board of Regents Endowed Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2015-22). His work has centred on cultural production in France and Quebec, women’s and gender studies, queer studies, literary criticism, film and care studies. He has published four edited or co-edited volumes—Horrible Mothers. Representations across Francophone North America (2019), ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon (2021), Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture: Raw Matters (2022), and Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies: New Approaches to Teaching—in addition to articles, chapters, and several edited special-themed journal issues. In 2020, he founded the series New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonization, Queerness (EUP).
Keywords: literature, screen studies, care, motherhood, queer/gender studies, medical humanities
Research Interests
Motherhood in contemporary France and Quebec; care studies; medical humanities; women's health; HIV/AIDS in France; Contemporary youth and popular culture; Screen studies; Feminist and queer studies.
Research Projects
Edited Book
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | S. Bouamer, L. Bourdeau (Ed.). (2022) Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies. Switzerland: Palgrave, [Link] | |
2022 | L. Bourdeau, V. H. Capps (Ed.). (2022) Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture. Lanham: Lexington Books, [Link] | |
2021 | L. Bourdeau (Ed.). (2021) ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [Link] | |
2019 | L. Bourdeau (Ed.). (2019) Horrible Mothers. Representations across Francophone North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [Link] |
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2024 | Loïc Bourdeau & Peadar Kearney (2024) 'Exploring and Transcending Québécité in Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime and Monia Chokri’s La femme de mon frère' In: Quebec Cinema in the 21st Century. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press. [Link] | |
2024 | Loic Bourdeau (2024) 'Forgotten Class: French Literature, Medicine, and Poverty' In: Literature and Medicine. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [Link] [DOI] | |
2023 | L. Bourdeau, C. Cormier (2023) 'Ô malheureuse: nouvelles revendications poétiques en Louisiane' In: L'Altérité: Figurations littéraires et médiatiques. Moncton, Canada : Perce-Neige. | |
2022 | L. Bourdeau, V. H. Capps (2022) 'SARS-CoV-2 and Discursive Inoculation: Lessons from HIV/AIDS' In: The Languages of COVID-19. Milton Park : Routledge. [Link] | |
2022 | L. Bourdeau (2022) 'Unapologetically Visible? Representing and Reassessing Contemporary French Womanhood in Dix Pour Cent' In: Taking Up Space: Women at Work in Contemporary France. Cardiff : UWP. [Link] | |
2021 | L. Bourdeau (2021) 'Sex Wars in Potiche: Womanhood Then and Now' In: ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. [Link] | |
2020 | L. Bourdeau (2020) 'Queues théories: Le “suçage” comme mode de vie' In: QuébéQueer. Montreal : PUM. [Link] | |
2019 | L. Bourdeau (2019) 'Politics and Motherhood in Xavier Dolan’s J’ai tué ma mère and Mommy' In: Horrible Mothers. Representations across Francophone North America. Lincoln : UNP. [Link] | |
2017 | L. Bourdeau (2017) 'Géographies de la transgression dans le triptyque autobiographique de Michel Tremblay' In: Transmissions et transgressions dans les littératures de l’Amérique francophone. Moncton : Perce-Neige. [Link] |
Edited Journal Issue
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | L. Bourdeau, A. Gefen (2022) Nouvelles Études Francophones: Sous-contrôle. Fictions et contre-fictions du contrôle social. Lincoln: [Edited Journal Issue] [Link] | |
2019 | L. Bourdeau (2019) Études Francophones: Révoltes et révolutions. Lafayette: [Edited Journal Issue] [Link] | |
2019 | L. Bourdeau (2019) Études Francophones: Déclin, deuil et nostalgie. Lafayette: [Edited Journal Issue] [Link] | |
2018 | L. Bourdeau (2018) Études Francophones: Dossier Plurithématique. Lafayette: [Edited Journal Issue] [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | L. Bourdeau, N. Edwards, S. Wilson (2020) 'Introduction: Caring Relation'. Australian Journal of French Studies, 57 (3):287-292. [Link] https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2020.25 | |
2019 | L. Bourdeau (2019) 'Queering up the mother with Michel Tremblay and Xavier Dolan'. Contemporary French Civilization, 43 (3-4):353-372. https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2018.19 |
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | L. Bourdeau (2022) 'Robin Campillo’s 120 BPM, or When the Dust Unsettles' Intertexts, 26 (1-2) :111-127. https://doi.org/10.1353/itx.2022.0006 | |
2021 | L. Bourdeau (2021) 'Amours violents et passions dévorantes chez Simon Boulerice' Ondine/Ondina, :58-74. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_ondina/ond.202054020 | |
2020 | L. Bourdeau (2020) 'De ‘pas comme les autres’ à ‘tous dominés’ dans En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule d’Édouard Louis' Nouvelles Études Francophones, :71-85. [DOI] | |
2019 | L. Bourdeau (2019) 'L’écriture comme impératif et autofiction mythologique dans Prague de Maude Veilleux et La Minotaure de Mariève Maréchale' Studii şi cercetari filologice. Seria limbi romanice, :36-56. [Link] | |
2015 | L. Bourdeau (2015) 'Trouble dans la sexualité: Entre-deux féminin et processus d’asexuation dans Les Chambres de bois' Cahiers Anne Hébert, :58-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.17118/11143/8345 | |
2012 | L. Bourdeau (2012) 'Italien, indien, homosexuel: l’expérience de la marge dans la multiculturalité québécoise et ses répercussions identitaires' Studii şi cercetari filologice. Seria limbi romanice, :144-160. [Link] | |
2012 | L. Bourdeau (2012) 'F.O.L.L.E société: déconstruction et reconstruction identitaire dans C.R.A.Z.Y' Nouvelles Études Francophones, 27 (1) :130-144. [Link] |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | L. Bourdeau (2021) Review of Les folles littéraires, des folies lucides. Les états borderline du genre et ses créations, de Mireille Calle-Gruber et al. (dir.). [Book Review] [Link] | |
2018 | L. Bourdeau (2018) Review of Disturbing Attachments. Genet Modern Pederasty, and Queer History by Kadji Amin. [Book Review] [Link] | |
2017 | L. Bourdeau (2017) Review of C.R.A.Z.Y.: A Queer Film Classic by Robert Schwartzwald. [Book Review] [Link] |
Short Survey
Co-edited Journal Issue
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | L. Bourdeau, N. Edwards, S. Wilson (2020) The Care (Re)Turn in French and Francophone Studies. [Co-edited Journal Issue] [Link] |
Creative Practice
Year | Publication | |
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2023 | Loic Bourdeau et al. (2023) Capillaires. Montreal, QC: [Creative Practice] | |
2020 | Loic Bourdeau (2020) A Rebours. [Creative Practice] [Link] | |
2019 | Loic Bourdeau (2019) L'attente. [Creative Practice] |
Conference Contribution
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Teaching Interests
Motherhood in contemporary France and Quebec; care studies; medical humanities; HIV/AIDS in France; Contemporary youth and popular culture; Screen studies; Feminist and queer studies.