Officers

Charles R. Batson is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Union College, Schenectady, NY, where he also won the Stillman Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is the author of Dance, Desire, and Anxiety in Early Twentieth-Century French Theatre (Ashgate, 2005), co-editor of journal issues devoted to a Queer Québec appearing in Québec Studies and Contemporary French Civilization, and co-editor of a 2012 special double issue of Contemporary French Studies on the legacy of Lawrence R. Schehr. A member of Montreal’s Working Group on Circus Research, he has published work on French and Francophone cultural production and performance in such journals as SITES, Québec Studies, Gradiva, Dance Chronicle, Nottingham French Studies, Contemporary French Studies, and French Politics, Culture, and Society. He co-edited with Louis Patrick Leroux a compendium of essays on Québec’s contemporary circus called Cirque Global: Québec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries (McGill-Queens University Press, 2016), and he is co-convening a series of research encounters in the new field of inquiry they are calling Circus and Its Others.

Yulia Bosworth is an Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics in the Department of Romance Languages at Binghamton University. Her main area of research is sociolinguistics of North American French, with a focus on the relationship between language ideologies and collective identity in Quebec. Her recent publications have focused on Quebec’s negative collective discourse on the quality of French spoken by high-profile politicians. She is the Faculty Director of Understanding Modern Quebec, a SUNY summer program in partnership with Université Laval in Québec.

Mark P. Richard is Professor of History and Canadian Studies at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He has been a member of the ACQS since 1998 and a member of the editorial board of its journal, Québec Studies, since 2005. He has served the ACQS as Vice President (2012-2013), Secretary (2014-2015), and Treasurer (2016-present.)

Amy J. Ransom is professor of French at Central Michigan University, where she teaches all levels of French language and literature, French film, and Quebec studies courses. She received her PhD in French literature from the University of Minnesota, publishing her revised dissertation as The Feminine as Fantastic in the conte fantastique: Visions of the Other (1995). She retrained as a Québec specialist in the early 2000s, and has published two dozen articles and two books on Quebec popular culture, science-fiction and fantasy literatures in particular. Science Fiction from Québec: A Postcolonial Study (2009) was both the first monograph on “SFQ” and an early application of postcolonial theory to science fiction. Hockey PQ: Canada’s Game in Quebec’s Popular Culture (2014) examines representations of ice hockey in popular fiction, music, film, and television. Her current book project,Quebec Film in the New Millennium: Memory, Territory, Identity, is underway.

Leslie Choquette is Professor of History, Côté Professor of French Studies, and Director of the French Institute at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the author of Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada (Harvard University Press, 1997), which won the Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize in French colonial history. She has also written many articles about the French presence throughout North America. In 2012, she received Le Prix du Québec from the Québec Government for her contribution to the field of Québec Studies, and in 2016, she was inaugurated into the American French Genealogical Society’s French Canadian Hall of Fame in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

Juliette Rogers is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Macalaster College. Her research interests include 19th century French writers, particularly from the Belle Epoque (1880-1914), and the literature of francophone Quebec, especially contemporary women writers. She has published a number of articles in these areas, and her book, titled Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development, was published in 2007 on Pennsylvania State University Press. In 2018-2019, she was a Fulbright Research Scholar and conducted research on women writers from northern France at the Université de Lille.