Dr. Jorge Calderón

Biography / Biographie

Dr. Jorge Calderón is a specialist in 20^th and 21^st French and Québécois 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 Université de Montréal, Queen’s University, and McGill University. He also studied in Paris at the École Normale Supérieure, the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Université Paris 7 and Paris 8. Dr. Calderón has published on existentialism, the nouveau roman, AIDS writing and contemporary literature. He is the co-editor of Representations of First Nations and Métis in Canada and Québec, Questionner l’espace des frontières, Queer Frontiers in Canadian and Québécois 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 Québec Literatures. He is currently working on a book about queer bodies, spaces, temporalities, and affects. He is also working on the research project “Corporalité et sexualité queer au Canada et au Québec,” with the Équipe de recherche en études queer au Québec (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 Québec (Université de Montréal, 2022), Queer Art Performance (UQÀM, 2018), Feeling Queer/Queer Feeling, (University of Toronto, 2017), Masculin/Féminin: La performativité du genre dans la littérature québécoise depuis la Révolution tranquille (Simon Fraser University, 2017), Engagement local/Engagement global (Simon Fraser University, 2016). He has been the senior supervisor of 2 Ph.D. students and 19 M.A students in a variety of fields in French, Québécois, and Francophone studies.

Research Interests

• 20^th- and 21^st-Century French and Québécois Literature, Cinema & Cultural Studies
• Literary & Cultural Theory: Gender Theory, Queer Theory, Affect Theory, Performance Theory, Biopolitics
• Migration, Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Globalisation

Intérêts de recherche

• Littérature, cinéma et études culturelles français et québécois des 20^e et 21^e siècles
• Théorie littéraire et culturelle : théorie du genre, queer, de l’affect, de la performance et biopolitique
• Migration, nationalisme, transnationalisme et globalisation

Education / Éducation

• Ph.D., McGill University
• Ancien pensionnaire de l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris
• M.A., Queen's University
• B.A., Université de Montréal