Educated at the University of Western Ontario. Researches Haitian and Quebec literature, with a focus on migrant literature. Academic interests include the issues of migration, identity, revolution, Americanness and the literary institution. Co-editor of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Newsletter.

Teaches several French language and literature courses including Literary History in Context and Haitian Migrant Literature from Québec. Is the Academic advisor for the Concurrent Teacher Education Program (French). Will teach the course on the Culture of Touraine for the 2010 Tours exchange program.

Corinne Beauquis enseigne des cours de langue et de littérature dans le département de français et de linguistique de l’Université de Toronto Scarborough. Elle a enseigné en France le cours sur la culture de Touraine pour le programme Summer Abroad de l’Université de Toronto (https://summerabroad.utoronto.ca/index.php/program/France). Ses centres d’intérêt incluent les questions de migration, de frontières, d’identité, d’interculturel et de transculturel, de révolution et d’institution, particulièrement appliquées aux champs littéraires d’Haïti et du Québec. Elle s’interroge également sur la didactique des langues et de la littérature.  Elle est membre du comité de rédaction d’Arborescences, la revue française de l’Université de Toronto (http://www.erudit.org/revue/arbo/2012/v/n2/index.html). Elle est directrice du programme de formation simultanée des enseignants de l’Université de Toronto (Concurrent Teacher Education Program : http://www.ctep.utoronto.ca/home/index.html). 

Jeri English is a Lecturer in French and Women's and Gender Studies in the Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She teaches French language and literature courses, and courses on women's life-writing and cinema. Her research areas include feminist literary, film and cultural theory; twentieth- and twenty-first-century French women writers; autobiography; and the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir.

She has presented papers and published articles on Rachilde, Annie Ernaux, Violette Leduc, Marguerite Duras, Marie Darieussecq and Beauvoir. Her current research project examines reflections of Beauvoir's theories of self-other relations in contemporary French women's autobiographical writings.

Rena Helms-Park (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Centre of French and Linguistics. She holds a graduate appointment in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto St. George.

Her research centres on lexical acquisition; more specifically, her work examines the interaction between the L1 and L2 lexicons. Her current projects with research associates include: cognate processing, including cross-script cognate recognition, in languages like Romanian, Ukrainian, Hindi, and English; lexical testing for heritage speakers of Inuktitut; lexical acquisition among children with cochlear implants; and the facilitation of L2 lexical acquisition through music.

Yoonjung Kang (Ph.D., MIT) is an associate professor of linguistics in the Centre for French and Linguistics and holds a graduate appointment in the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. Her area of specialization is phonology and its interface with phonetics and morphology, with a special focus on Korean. Current research projects include 1) synchronic and diachronic variation in the sound patterns of English loanwords in Korean; 2) dialectal variation in Korean; 3) acoustic and articulatory studies on Korean consonants; 4) heritage Korean in GTA; 5) a general theory of loanword phonology and its implication for phonetics-phonology interface; 6) experimental phonology. She is an associate editor of Phonology.

Dr. Karen McCrindle is the Interim Director of the Centre for French and Linguistics and a Senior Lecturer. She holds a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from the University of Toronto. She has also studied at York University and Carleton University and has taught in Canada and in France. She teaches a variety of courses, such as Semantics, Sociolinguistics of French, French Phonetics and Phonology and Pidgin and Creole Languages.

She is committed to experiential education and her current research interests include the implications and impact of multilingualism in Canada and the influence of media on language change.

Prof. Sylvia Mittler is an Associate Professor of French who teaches culturally-oriented courses on folktale and myth as well as reception of cultural identities in la Francophonie, practical language courses including practical translation and interpretation, and French literature courses devoted to French travel literature and children's literature in French as well as humour in contemporary French fiction.

Her areas of research include France and Greece with specific bearing on popular culture, history and memory, discourses of alterity and ethnicity and the use of humour and satire. Her published work ranges in subject from the carnival songs of renaissance Florence (she once also taught Italian at UTSC) to folk traditions in the work of "rustique" author Henri Pourrat to Greek humorist Nikos Tsiforos' popular and "anti-colonial" take on history, ancient Greek mythology, language, and cultural identity in modern Greece.

Chandan Narayan (A.B., M.A., UC Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Michigan) Chandan Narayan's research focuses broadly on the intersection between speech perception and phonology.

In particular his work addresses how infant directed speech and speech perception patterns in infants reflect acoustic-perceptual pressures on historical phonology. His teaching interests include Acoustic Phonetics, Speech Perception, First Language Acquisition, Historical Linguistics, and General Linguistics.

Juvénal Ndayiragije (Ph.D., UQAM, Montréal) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics. He teaches Syntax courses in the Centre for French & Linguistics, and the graduate programme of the French Department, University of Toronto. His research focuses on the role of functional categories in the syntax of natural languages and parametric variation. It involves extensive fieldwork on various non-related and less-studied languages including Creoles (Haiti), Fongbè (Bénin), Kirundi (Burundi), Kinyarwanda (Rwanda), Malagasy (Madagascar) and Mandarin/Cantonese. Endangered languages are his next project. If you speak one, talk to him.

Pascal Riendeau (Ph. D., Université de Montréal) is an Associate Professor of French in the Centre for French and Linguistics, and he holds a graduate appointment in the French Department (St. George). At the undergraduate level, he teaches Québec literature, theatre, cinema and culture. At the graduate level, he teaches contemporary French and Québec literature and literary theory. His current research focuses on the discourse of ethics in contemporary literature. He is the co-director, with Barbara Havercroft (UTSG) and Pascal Michelucci (UTM), of the Groupe de recherche et d’étude sur la littérature française d’aujourd’hui (GRELFA), a research group that studies current French literature.

Ron Smyth received his BA Hon. from Carleton University in 1975, an MSc in Psycholinguistics from the University of Alberta in 1977, and a PhD in Psycholinguistics from the same university. His psycholinguistic research has included first language acquisition and the adult language comprehension and production of a range of referential categories, including pronouns, agreement, control structures, and VP ellipsis.

His sociophonetics research is focused on the relationship between personal/demographic variables (sex, age, sexual orientation, social class) and listeners' ratings of the voices of male and female speakers, as well as the ability of both kinds of variables to account for variation in the phonetic realization of speech sounds.

Dr. Malama Tsimenis holds a Ph.D. in 19th century French literature from the University of Montreal. She has taught at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of San Diego. For the past five years, she has been teaching at the University of Toronto where she has been recognized for her commitment to undergraduate teaching through various awards and nominations.

Dr. Tsimenis gives seminars and leads workshops on pedagogical issues to both faculty and graduate students, and works closely with teaching assistants both as a mentor and as a coordinator for language courses. Her research interests lay in literary criticism, prefatory discourse, esthetic theory and innovative pedagogy.

Helen Wu, Ph.D., did her graduate studies in Chinese political culture, linguistics, and literary translation and has continued to conduct research in these areas. She has been teaching Chinese language, literature, culture and society, and translation courses.

The articles and book chapters that she has published include Chinese linguistics, the sociology of language, fiction, poetry and satirical verse, sayings and proverbs, and translation studies. Her work in progress includes a comparative study of the Chinese and English writing systems and an SSHRC supported project on satirical verse in the Chinese media.