Jorge Calderón

Jorge Calderón, an associate professor of literature and culture in SFU’s Department of French, is a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century French and Québécois literatures. He majored in French studies at the Université de Montréal (BA, 1998) and did his graduate work at Queen’s University (MA, 1999) and McGill (PhD, 2005).

He has published on existentialism, the nouveau roman, AIDS writing, and contemporary literature and is the co-editor of “Representations of First Nations and Métis in Canada and Québec” and “Questionner l’espace des frontières.”

Calderón is currently vice-president of the Canadian Association of University and College Teachers of French, and is also past vice-president of the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures. He is particularly interested in the cultural constructions of identities and otherness; sexual diversity and gender studies; immigrant narratives, multicultural and transnational relations; and globalization.