Kanate Dahouda
Kanate DahoudaAssociate Professor of French, Francophone, and Italian StudiesChair, French, Francophone, and Italian Studies
Joined faculty in 2001
Ph.D., University Laval
M.A., (and post-masters) Universite Nationale de Cote d'Ivoire
B.A., Universite Nationale de Cote d'Ivoire
Contact Information
Scholarly Interest
Outside of teaching, Professor Dahouda has given lectures on both Canadian and Caribbean literatures in French. He has also published book reviews and several articles on Francophone Literatures. As scholar, he has been variously co-author and contributor of the following publications or reviews: Vivre l'Ecole (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) Quebec francais, Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Litteraires du Quebec (VII) (Quebec, Canada), Presence francophone (Worcester, Massachusetts), Francofonia (Spain), International Journal of Canadian Studies (Ottawa, Canada), Tangence (Quebec), Neohelicon (Hungary). Kanate's field of teaching extends to Francophone literatures, cultures and societies (Quebec, the French Caribbean, and Africa ).
His principal research interests include contemporary Francophone issues, exile and quest for identity, and the memory of violence as well as the writing of subversion in contemporary francophone fictions.
Teaching Experience
Taught "Understanding Contemporary Francophone issues" and French at various levels at Language Studies Canada in Montreal.
Research
Literature in French from Quebec and the French Caribbean: a comparative perspective on history, poetics and ideology
The dialectics of body in Haitian literature from Quebec
The architecture of appearance in North African literature
Memory of exile and violence in Caribbean and West African literatures in French
Memory and Identity in Francophone Literatures
Francophonie, Institution, Power and Ideology.
Courses Taught
Intermediate French I
Intermediate French II
Intensive Intermediate French in Review
French in Review II: Lire Ecrire et Traduire
French Conversation: Parlons Francais
Courses on Francophone Cultures
Introduction to Francophone Cultures
Introduction to Quebec Studies Courses on Francophone Literatures
Voices from the French Americas: Francophone Caribbean Identities
Voices from the Islands: Culture and Identity in French Caribbean Literature (in English) First Year Seminar: Lost in Translation and Memory in Exile (in English)
Independent Studies
Honors: on African literatures and African politics
Publications
publications or reviews: Vivre l'Ecole (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) Quebec francais, Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Litteraires du Quebec (VII) (Quebec, Canada), Presence francophone (Worcester, Massachusetts), Francofonia (Spain), International Journal of Canadian Studies (Ottawa, Canada), Tangence (Quebec), Neohelicon (Hungary), L'Annee Francophone Internationale (Paris). Kanate's field of teaching extends to Francophone literatures, cultures and societies (Quebec, the French Caribbean, and Africa).
His principal research interests include contemporary Francophone issues, exile and quest for identity, and the memory of violence as well as the writing of subversion in contemporary francophone fictions.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Association of University Professors
African Literature Association
New York African Studies Association
The International Council of Francophone Studies