Pierre-Mathieu Le Bel

Pierre-Mathieu Le Bel serves as a research engineer and part-time lecturer at Blaise Pascal University, with prior teaching experience in social and cultural geography at Ottawa University, Concordia University, and Université du Québec à Montréal. His academic work bridges geographical theory and urban practice across French and Canadian institutions.

Le Bel specializes in literary geography and urban heritage, examining how spatial narratives shape collective memory in urban environments. His research particularly investigates Montreal's historical districts like the Redlight area, analyzing intersections between physical spaces, cultural memory, and literary representations. This focus extends to his work on the Bourbonnais literary itinerary project, where he explores place-identity connections through textual and spatial analysis.

His publication record (2011-2016) demonstrates consistent interdisciplinary exploration of urban transformation, with recurring themes including spatial theory in crime fiction, megaproject impacts on cityscapes, and memory conflicts in heritage sites. Le Bel employs methodologies from critical geography and literary studies to analyze how urban memories are constructed through texts and physical spaces, contributing to understanding of post-industrial city evolution.