Krysteena Gadzala

Krysteena Gadzala is a Lecturer in the Department of French, Spanish and Italian at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Arts. Her office is located in Fletcher Argue Building (Room 424), where she teaches undergraduate French courses including Introductory French, Français, and Français oral modules.

Education:

• PhD in French Literature, University of Waterloo (2020)
• MA in French Literature, University of Waterloo (2013)
• BEd in French (Junior/Intermediate), Nipissing University (2012)
• BA in French Teaching Specialization, University of Waterloo (2011)

Research Focus: Gadzala specializes in 21st-century French literary depictions of death, loss, and mourning rituals. Her work examines autobiographical narratives—particularly paternal experiences of child loss—through interdisciplinary lenses of material culture and ritual theory. Core research domains include:

• Grief representation in contemporary fiction
• Funerary/material artifacts in texts
• Ritual as narrative framework
• Autobiographical trauma writing

Publication Trends: Her scholarly output consistently explores mourning rituals in modern French literature, with recent works analyzing photographic symbolism in grief narratives (2024), paternal bereavement structures (2020), and ritual-mediated deification processes (2019). Publications demonstrate strong engagement with authors like Jérôme Ferrari and Philippe Forest.

Awards: No scientific awards documented in source materials.

Academic Service: No information available regarding student advising, research grants, laboratory affiliations, or team collaborations.