Lianne Moyes
Femmes, féminisme et littérature
- Professeure titulaire
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de littératures et de langues du monde
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, room C8128
Profile
Biography
Born in Scotland, I emigrated to Canada as a child. I studied French and English literature at the undergraduate level at the University of Western Ontario, and continued to work between the French and English departments at Western to complete an M.A. in comparative Canadian literature. At York University, I did a Ph.D. in English with specializations in Canadian literature and literary theory. My dissertation considered intertextual relations between two contemporary women writers (Nicole Brossard and Lola Lemire Tostevin) and two writers from the first half of the century (Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes). In 1993, I joined the editorial collective of Tessera, a magazine whose feminist interventions in culture take the forms of visual art and writing, both critical and creative.
Hired by Université de Montréal in 1993, I was delighted to find myself in an English department in a Francophone university, an institutional location which allows me to move between languages. Living in Quebec also intensifies a sense that I have always had (as an immigrant, as a woman, and as a student of languages) of unstable national belonging. I am very interested in the ways in which such linguistic and identitary instability manifests itself in literary texts. Perhaps for this reason, I work on various forms of cross-border writing including fiction theory, bilingual writing, franco-Ontarian and anglo-Quebec writing. I am currently working on a book-length study of English-language writing in Quebec. In a feminist context, I am interested in intertextual relations between women writers across national borders, in contemporary feminist appropriations of aesthetics of movement and ambivalence such as the baroque, and in understandings of writing, history, ethics, and politics which do not require that the subject adopt a single identity.
Affiliations and responsabilities
Research affiliations
Teaching and supervision
Student supervision
Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)
Navigating trauma and the city : at the intersection of trauma theory and flânerie in contemporary Canadian fiction
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Toryism reconstructed : the relationship between T.C. Haliburton's The Clockmaker and Canadian Imperialists
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
A Hauntology of Sheila Watson's The Double Hook
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Theorizing the peregrinations of Anglo/Québécois literature in translation
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
The poetics of translation : a thinking structure
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Noisy and haptic interventions in the feminist codex : daring refusals by H. D., Lisa Robertson, Rachel Zolf, and Erín Moure
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Performing femininity within masculine circles : a study of negation in the works of Mina Loy
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Bodies, stories, cities : learning to read and write (in) Montréal with Gail Scott
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
A Salute to Feminine Utopia: Part One Feminist Manifestos and Utopian Fiction and Part Two Cwenaland an Odyssey
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Inventing interventions : strategies of reappropriation in Native American and First Nations literatures
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
The Dystopic Body in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Literary meals in Canada : the Food/books of Austin Clarke, Hiromi Goto, Tessa McWatt and Fred Wah
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Believing in belief : the modernist quest for spiritual meaning (Croyer en croyance : la quête moderniste pour le sens spirituel)
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Paper Dinosaurs : field notes as finds in Robert Kroetsch's Badlands
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
What language is this ? : a study of abjection in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Anne Stone's Hush
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Conceptions of the self : a theoretical, fictional, and analytical investigation
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Differing bodies, defying subjects, deferring texts : gender, sexuality, and transgression in Chinese Canadian women's writing
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Arab woman : different culture, different feminism
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Headless : a work of fiction/theory on desire and fear in narrative
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
The Flood Myth, the Lone Ranger, and the re-centering of marginal masculinity in Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Women's autobiographies : (Un)conscious re-presentations of self and mother
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
The play of desire : Sinclair Ross's Gay fiction
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Dialogic imagination in Jane Urquhart's The Whirlpool, Changing Heaven, and Away
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
The Canada Council, the regional theatre system and the English-Canadian playwright : 1957-1975
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Reader-response theories, theoretical anxieties : validating interpretations in some reader-response theories
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Through a glass darkly : gothic intertexts in Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
The death of a beautiful woman : "nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance"
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
The question of identity in italian-canadian fiction
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Hybrid canons, hybrid theories : the political dialectic of literary theory and canon criticism
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M.A.
Placing Atlantic Canada : community, cultural history, politics
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Projects
Research projects
Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture au Québec (CRILCQ)
Fictions de voyage : quand la littérature du Québec parcourt le monde
RS - Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILCQ)
Corporalité, et sexualité queer au Canada et au Québec
CENTRE DE RECHERCHE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE SUR LA LITTERATURE ET LA CULTURE QUEBECOISES (CRILCQ)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MOUNT ROYAL IN THE LITERARY GEOGRAPHY OF YDDISH-SPEAKING MONTREAL
Outreach
Publications and presentations
Publications
Chapitres de livres
- Avec Catherine Leclerc, "Negotiating Literatures in Contiguity: France Daigle in / and Québec", Trans/acting Culture, Writing and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard, dir. Eva Karpinski, Jennifer Henderson, Ian Sowton et Ray Ellenwood, Waterloo, ON, Wilfrid-Laurier UP, à paraître en 2013
- "(Dés)articuler l'identité, la langue, la culture et le territoire dans six nouvelles anglo-québécoises", Autres voix du dedans: la littérature anglo-québécoise, dir. Martine-Emmanuelle Lapointe et Catherine Leclerc, Québec, les Presses de l'Université Laval, à paraître en 2013
- "Histoires littéraires décousues: le cas de la littérature (anglo-) québécoise", Transmission et héritages de la littérature québécoise, dir. Karine Cellard et Martine-Emmanuelle Lapointe, collection "Espaces littéraires", Montréal, Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2011, p. 47-70
- "Reading A.M. Klein's 'The Mountain' alongside the Montreal poems of J.I. Segal",Failure'sOpposite: Listening to A.M. Klein, dir. Sherry Simon et Norm Ravvin, Montréal, McGill-Queen's UP, 2011, p. 129-141
- "'Pointing beyond frame': Gail Scott Lectrice de Gertrude Stein", Contemporanéités de Gertrude Stein,Comment lire, traduire et écrire Gertrude Stein aujourd'hui, dir. Jean-François Chassay et Éric Giraud, Paris, Éditions des archives contemporaines, 2011, p. 139-149
- "Discontinuity, Intertextuality, and Literary History: Gail Scott's Reading of Gertrude Stein", Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry, dir. Di Brandt et Barbara Godard, Waterloo, ON, Wilfrid-Laurier UP, 2009, p. 163-187
- "Acts of Citizenship: Erin Mouré's O Cidadán and the Limits of Worldliness", Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature, dir. Smaro Kamboureli et Roy Miki, Waterloo, ON, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2007, p. 111-128
- "Global / local : Montreal in the Poetry of Robyn Sarah, Mary di Michele and Erin Mouré", Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21stCentury, dir. Jason Camlot et Todd Swift, Montréal, Véhicule, 2007, p. 254-271
- "Sex of a Clown: Gail Scott's My Paris", Un certain genre malgré tout. Pour une réflexion sur la différence sexuelle à l'oeuvre dans l'écriture, dir. Catherine Mavrikakis et Patrick Poirier, Montréal, Éditions Nota Bene, "Convergences", 2006, p. 157-173
Rédactrice en chef d'un numéro spécial d'une revue ou directrice d'un dossier dans une revue
- Rédactrice en chef d'un numéro spécial sur la Littérature de langue anglaise au Québec, Revue d'études canadiennes, à paraître 2013
- Rédactrice en chef, Gail Scott: Sentences on the Wall, numéro spécial sur l'écrivaine anglo-montréalaise Gail Scott, Open Letter, no. 14, vol. 9, été 2012, 144 pages
- En collaboration avec Gillian Lane-Mercier d'un dossier qui regroupe les textes de Simon Harel, Jane Everett, Linda Leith, Catherine Leclerc, Robert Majzels, Gail Scott et Robert Schwartzwald, "Textes, territoires, traductions: (dé)localisations / dislocations de la littérature anglo-québécoise", Québec Studies, vol. 44, printemps 2008, 101 pages
Articles dans des revues scientifiques et professionnelles
- "Contesting Home and Native Land: Tessa McWatt'sOut of My Skinand Drew Hayden Taylor's 'A Blurry Image on the Six O'Clock News'", RANAMRecherches anglaises et nord-américaine, Université de Strasbourg, à paraître 2013
- Avec Catherine Leclerc, "Littératures en contiguïté: France Daigle au Québec, France Daigle et le Québec", Voix et images, 111 printemps-été 2012, p. 127-143
- Avec ClaireHuot et Robert Majzels, "'The public reading is a matter of the public reading': the 85 Project",Open Letter, no. 13, vol. 7, automne 2008, p. 14-39
- "Homelessness, Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship: Robert Majzels' City of Forgetting", Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies, no. 64, été 2008, p. 123-138
- "Introduction: Conflict in Contiguity", Québec Studies, no. spéc. "Textes, territoires, traduction: (dé)localisations/dislocations de la littérature anglo-québécoise", vol. 44, printemps 2008, p. 1-20
- "Writing the Montreal Mountain: 'Below the thresholds at which visibility begins'", Canadian Literature, dossier, "The Contemporary Gabrielle Roy" préparé par le Groupe de recherche sur Gabrielle Roy, Université McGill, no. 192, printemps 2007, p. 45-66
- "Les 'prétendues deux solitudes': à la recherche de l'étrangeté", Spirale, dossier "Write Here. Write Now. Les écritures anglo-montréalaises",no. 210, septembre-octobre 2006, p. 16-18
- "Local-global: Montréal dans la poésie de Robyn Sarah, Marydi Michele, et Erin Mouré", Voix et images, dossier "La littérature anglo-québécoise", no. 30, vol. 3, printemps 2005, p. 113-132
Disciplines
- Language Studies
- Literary Studies
- Literature
Areas of expertise
- Littérature anglo-québécoise
- Canadian literature
- Écriture expérimentale des femmes
- Small journals
- Literary theory
- Crime fiction