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Front Page | Faculty | UMBC Main Denis M. Provencher is associate professor of French and intercultural studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he teaches courses in French language & civilization, intercultural communication and discourse analysis. Dr. Provencher holds a Ph.D. in French civilization from Penn State University (1998) and completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2001-02). His published work focuses on the intersection of language, gender and sexual identities in contemporary literature and popular culture genres in both France and the United States. He has written on the linguistic representation of gender in Jean Genet's novel Notre-Dame des Fleurs (French Cultural Studies Vol. 12.1, 2001), the presence of US gay culture and language in the French gay magazine Tętu (Contemporary French Civilization, Vol. 26.1, 2002), and the heteronormative narrative strategies in the NBC sitcom Will and Grace (America Viewed and Skewed: Television Situation Comedies, SUNY Press, 2005). His current research explores the coming out experience of French gay men, part of a larger project examining language and sexual citizenship in contemporary France. Dr. Provencher also recently participated as a Jack and Anita Hess Fellow in the Faculty Seminar “The Holocaust and Anti-Semitism in France” at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC (2005). He is co-editing with Andrew Sobanet (Georgetown) a special issue of Contemporary French Civilization (forthcoming 2007) on the Holocaust titled “France, 1940-1944: The Ambiguous Legacy”. |
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