Christine Duff

Christine Duff is an Associate Professor in the Department of French at Carleton University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She splits her academic engagement between the French Department and the Institute of African Studies, focusing on literature and cultural analysis across Francophone regions. Her research centers on Caribbean and African literatures in French, with particular emphasis on women's writing, Vodou mythology, and intertextuality.

• B.A. Hons. and M.A. from the University of Victoria
• Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (2003), supervised by Frederick Ivor Case

Research Themes:
• Literary representation of psychic processes and trauma
• Postcolonial theory applications in diaspora narratives
• Gendered perspectives in Caribbean and African literatures
• Vodou symbolism and its cross-cultural literary interpretations
• Intertextuality as narrative strategy

Publication Trends:
Her scholarly work explores intertextual networks in Quebecois and Caribbean fiction, mythological frameworks in diaspora literature, and memory's role in postcolonial identity reconstruction. Key topics include Haitian-Quebec cultural intersections, feminist reinterpretation of folkloric elements, and literary responses to historical erasure.

Graduate Supervisions:
Recent students have examined memory work in Edem Awumey's novels, representations of madness in Beyala and Cage-Florentiny's works, power dynamics in Aminata Sow Fall's writing, and gendered resistance through dance and language in contemporary Francophone texts.