Dr Loïc Bourdeau

    French Studies, School of Modern Languages, Motherhood Project

    Assistant Professor - Acting Deputy Head of School

    Rye Hall Building, Block D, North Campus
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    (01) 7083700

    Biography

    Loïc Bourdeau is Lecturer in French Studies and Medical Humanities 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 five 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), Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies: New Approaches to Teaching and The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel (2025)—in addition to articles, chapters, and several edited special-themed journal issues. Between 2020 and 2023, he founded and ran the series New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonization, Queerness (EUP). He holds a PG diploma in Narrative Medicine and facilitates workshops with health professionals in Europe and the USA. 

    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

    Title Role Description Start date End date Amount
    #ENDOs PI (Maynooth), Partner (EU) Erasmus+ - KA220-ADU - Cooperation partnerships in adult education - This project focuses on training adults with chronic diseases and health community. By working on endometriosis, the project potentially reaches 14 million people in Europe, who call themselves "ENDOs". Our ambition is to enable ENDOs to be more active in their care journey. We will use art and culture as skills developer. User-centric, our learning tools will contribute to building an active community of ENDOs and caregivers. This project offers inspiring innovations for other health fields. Collaboration between Ireland, France, Italy, Sweden, and Finland. My own work is on WP3 Tell the Story (Narrative Medicine); I'll lead narrative medicine workshops in Ireland. 01/10/2023 31/03/2026

    Edited Book

    Year Publication
    2025 L. Bourdeau, C. Lloyd (Ed.). (2025) The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [Link]
    2022 L. Bourdeau, V. H. Capps (Ed.). (2022) Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture. Lanham: Lexington Books, [Link]
    2022 S. Bouamer, L. Bourdeau (Ed.). (2022) Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies. Switzerland: Palgrave, [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]

    Edited Journal Issue

    Year Publication
    2024 L. Bourdeau, C. Verstraet (2024) The Twenty-First Century Social Novel in French. Edinburgh: [Edited Journal Issue] [Link] https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2024.0419
    2022 L. Bourdeau, A. Gefen (2022) Nouvelles Études Francophones: Sous-contrôle. Fictions et contre-fictions du contrôle social. Lincoln: [Edited Journal Issue] [Link]
    2020 L. Bourdeau, N. Edwards, S. Wilson (2020) The Care (Re)Turn in French and Francophone Studies. Liverpool: [Edited Journal Issue] [Link] https://doi.org/10.3828/AJFS.2020.25
    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]

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2025 L. Bourdeau, C. Lloyd (2025) 'Introduction: Adulting, Generational Blame and a World of Uncertainty or The Case for the Millennial Novel' In: The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. [Link]
    2025 L. Bourdeau, C. Lloyd (2025) 'Coda: What Comes After the Millennial Novel?' In: The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. [Link]
    2024 L. Bourdeau (2024) 'Forgotten Class: French Literature, Medicine, and Poverty' In: Literature and medicine. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [Link] https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009300070.020
    2024 L. Bourdeau, P. 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]
    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, V. H. Capps (2022) 'Introduction: Revisiting Sites of Rawness, Queerness, and Vulnerability' In: Revisiting HIV/AIDS in French Culture. Lanham : Lexington Books. [Link]
    2022 S. Bouamer, L. Bourdeau (2022) 'Introduction: Toward Diversity and Decolonization' In: Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies. Switzerland : Palgrave. [Link] [DOI]
    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) 'Introduction: In the Beginning Was the Word' In: ReFocus: The Films of François Ozon. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. [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) 'Introduction: Failing Successfully' In: Horrible Mothers. Representations across Francophone North America. Lincoln : UNP. [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]

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2024 L. Bourdeau, C. Verstraet (2024) 'Introduction: The Twenty-First Century Social Novel in French'. Nottingham French Studies, :249-259. [Link] https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2024.0419
    2024 L. Bourdeau, C. Verstraet (2024) 'Becoming Édouard Louis and the Transmedial Social Novel'. Nottingham French Studies, 63 (3). [Link] https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2024.0427
    2024 L. Bourdeau, G. King (2024) 'Screening race, Streaming Frenchness: Women of Colour on French Netflix'. French Screen Studies, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1080/26438941.2024.2389621
    2020 L. Bourdeau, N. Edwards, S. Wilson (2020) 'Introduction: Caring Relations'. Australian Journal of French Studies, 57 (3). [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
    2022 L. Bourdeau (2022) 'Robin Campillo’s 120 BPM, or When the Dust Unsettles'. Intertexts, 26 (1-2). https://doi.org/10.1353/itx.2022.0006
    2021 L. Bourdeau (2021) 'Amours violents et passions dévorantes chez Simon Boulerice'. Ondine/ Ondina, (5). [Link] 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 (New Francophone Studies), 35 (1). [Link] [DOI]
    2019 L. Bourdeau (2019) 'L’écriture comme impératif et autofiction mythologique dans Prague de Maude Veilleux et La Minotaure de Mariève Maréchale'. Studies in Philology, (26). [Link]
    2015 L. Bourdeau (2015) 'Trouble dans la sexualité: Entre-deux féminin et processus d’asexuation dans Les Chambres de bois'. Cahiers Anne Hébert, (14). [Link] 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'. Studies in Philology, 1 (10). [Link]
    2012 L. Bourdeau (2012) 'F.O.L.L.E société: déconstruction et reconstruction identitaire dans C.R.A.Z.Y'. Nouvelles Études Francophones (New Francophone Studies), 27 (1):130-144. [Link]

    Book Review

    Year Publication
    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

    Year Publication
    2015 L. Bourdeau (2015) The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies: French Literature: 1945-1999. [Short Survey] https://doi.org/10.5699/yearworkmodlang.75.2013.0107
    2014 L. Bourdeau (2014) The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies: French Literature: 1945-1999. [Short Survey] https://doi.org/10.5699/yearworkmodlang.74.2012.0126

    Creative Practice

    Year Publication
    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]
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    Professional Associations

    Description Function From / To
    WIF UK-IRELAND Member 01/08/2022 -
    Association internationale des études québécoises Elected Board Member (USA rep.) 01/06/2020 - 30/06/2022

    Honors and Awards

    Date Title Awarding Body
    01/07/2022 Australian National University Visiting Fellowship RSHA (Research School of Humanities and the Arts) & HRC (Humanities Research Center)
    01/05/2019 Founder's Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities Friends of the Humanities (UL Lafayette)
    01/06/2019 Maynooth University Visiting Fellowship MU Arts and Humanities Institute

    Employment

    Employer Position From / To
    University of Louisiana, Lafayette Associate Professor of Francophone Studies 01/08/2021 - 07/07/2022
    University of Louisiana, Lafayette Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies 01/08/2015 - 31/07/2021
    Université de Limoges Visiting Professor (Professeur Invité) 01/10/2016 - 31/10/2016
    William and Mary Visiting Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies 01/08/2014 - 31/07/2015

    Education

    Start date Institution Qualification Subject
    University of California, Davis PhD French with a designated emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research
    University of California, Davis Master of Arts French
    Durham University Master of Arts (Research) French
    Université de Limoges Master 1 (honors) Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in English
    Université de Limoges Bacheler of Arts (honors) Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in English

    Languages

    Language Reading Writing Speaking
    English Fluent Fluent Fluent
    French Fluent Fluent Fluent

    Other Activities

    Description
    Founder and Series Editor, New Directions in Francophone Studies (2020-2023): Diversity, Decolonization, Queerness (EUP): Dedicated to diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice in Francophone studies, this series publishes cutting-edge scholarship in the field. This series publishes monographs and edited collections in Francophone studies (all French-speaking regions) from the 19th century to today. It is grounded in and guided by decolonial, anti-racist, queer, feminist, intersectional, trans-affirming and inclusive principles and is open to publishing works in literary studies, visual arts, cultural studies, history and pedagogy. The series also brings together scholars at all career stages while providing specific mentoring and support to Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and researchers from underrepresented backgrounds. For more information, check out: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-new-directions-in-francophone-studies-diversity-decolonization-queerness

    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.