
Dr. Jorge Calder贸n
Biography / Biographie
Dr. Jorge Calder贸n is a specialist in 20th and 21st French and Qu茅b茅cois literature and cultural studies. He works mainly in the fields of gender and queer theory, sexual diversity studies, and biopolitics. He trained in French studies at Universit茅 de Montr茅al, Queen鈥檚 University, and McGill University. He also studied in Paris at the 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure, the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Universit茅 Paris 7 and Paris 8. Dr. Calder贸n has published on existentialism, the nouveau roman, AIDS writing and contemporary literature. He is the co-editor of Representations of First Nations and M茅tis in Canada and Qu茅bec, Questionner l鈥檈space des fronti猫res, Queer Frontiers in Canadian and Qu茅b茅cois Literature, and Queer Bodies. He is past president of the Canadian Association of University and College Teachers of French and also past vice-president of the Association for Canadian and Qu茅bec Literatures. He is currently working on a book about queer bodies, spaces, temporalities, and affects. He is also working on the research project 鈥淐orporalit茅 et sexualit茅 queer au Canada et au Qu茅bec,鈥 with the 脡quipe de recherche en 茅tudes queer au Qu茅bec (EREQQ). He is interested in the cultural constructions of identities and otherness; multicultural, intercultural and transnational relations; migrant narratives and globalization. He has organized 14 national and international conferences, among them: Queer Sexualities in Canada and Qu茅bec (Universit茅 de Montr茅al, 2022), Queer Art Performance (UQ脌M, 2018), Feeling Queer/Queer Feeling, (University of Toronto, 2017), Masculin/F茅minin: La performativit茅 du genre dans la litt茅rature qu茅b茅coise depuis la R茅volution tranquille (51社区黑料, 2017), Engagement local/Engagement global (51社区黑料, 2016). He has been the senior supervisor of 2 Ph.D. students and 19 M.A students in a variety of fields in French, Qu茅b茅cois, and Francophone studies.
Research Interests
- 20th- and 21st-Century French and Qu茅b茅cois Literature, Cinema & Cultural Studies
- Literary & Cultural Theory: Gender Theory, Queer Theory, Affect Theory, Performance Theory, Biopolitics
- Migration, Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Globalisation
Int茅r锚ts de recherche
- Litt茅rature, cin茅ma et 茅tudes culturelles fran莽ais et qu茅b茅cois des 20e et 21e 蝉颈猫肠濒别蝉
- Th茅orie litt茅raire et culturelle : th茅orie du genre, queer, de l鈥檃ffect, de la performance et biopolitique
- Migration, nationalisme, transnationalisme et globalisation
Education / 脡ducation
- Ph.D., McGill University
- Ancien pensionnaire de l'脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure, Paris
- M.A., Queen's University
- B.A., Universit茅 de Montr茅al
Courses
Summer 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.
Selected Publications
鈥淨ueer Bodies/Corps Queers,鈥 edited with Domenico A. Beneventi, Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 46, no 1, 2021.
鈥Hosanna, l鈥檃rt queer du flop,鈥 in Qu茅beQueer : Le queer dans les productions litt茅raires, artistiques et m茅diatiques qu茅b茅coises, 茅d. Isabelle Boisclair, Guillaume Poirier Girard, and Pierre-Luc Landry, Montr茅al : Les Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Montr茅al, Nouvelles 茅tudes qu茅b茅coises, 2020, p. 271-288.
鈥淎porie, performance et n茅gativit茅 : une lecture de Putain et de Folle de Nelly Arcan,鈥 Nelly Arcan : Trajectoires fulgurantes, 茅d. Isabelle Boisclair, Christina Chung, Jo毛lle Papillon et Karine Rosso, Montr茅al : Les 茅ditions du remue-m茅nage, 2017, p. 205-222.
鈥淨ueer Frontiers in Canadian and Qu茅b茅cois Literature/Fronti猫res queer dans la litt茅rature qu茅b茅coise et canadienne,鈥 edited with Domenico A. Beneventi, Canadian Literature, no 224, Spring 2015.
鈥淟鈥檈kphrasis dans les romans de Dany Laferri猫re : Analyse d鈥檜n syst猫me d鈥檌nteraction textuelle,鈥 @nalyses : Revue de critique et de th茅orie litt茅raire, vol. 9, no 1, Hiver 2014, p. 492-517.
鈥淟es implications du manifeste 鈥楶our une 鈥渓itt茅rature-monde鈥 en fran莽ais,鈥欌 Trajectoires et d茅rives de la litt茅rature-monde : Po茅tiques de la relation et du divers dans les espaces francophones, 脡d. C茅cilia W. Francis et Robert Viau, Amsterdam & New York : Rodopi, coll. 芦 Francopolyphonies 禄, 2013, p. 29-53.
鈥淩epresentations of First Nations and M茅tis in Canada and Quebec / Repr茅sentations des Premi猫res Nations et des M茅tis au Canada et au Qu茅bec,鈥 edited with Wendy Roy, International Journal of Canadian Studies, no 41, 2010, p. 181- 312.