Vittorio Frigerio

Associate Professor of French language and literature at Dalhousie University. He has published various articles on French authors (Dumas, Diderot, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Maurice Leblanc, Rosny aîné, Zola, Han Ryner…) and on French and foreign popular novels. He has authored Les fils de Monte-Cristo. Idéologie du héros de roman populaire (PULIM, Limoges, 2002) as well as novels and short story collections in French and in Italian, and numerous works of fiction in magazines and anthologies. His latest book is Emile Zola au pays de l'Anarchie (Grenoble: ELLUG, 2006).

Paul Bleton

Paul Bleton, Professor at the Télé-université (Téluq) in Montreal since 1982, has published several manuals on written communication and argumentation, linguistics, the philosophy of language and the industry of language, non-verbal communication, mass-published novels and the bande dessinée. He has published an essay on the spy novel, "Les Anges de Machiavel. Essai sur l'espionnage", (Québec, Nuit blanche éditeur, Etudes paralittéraires, 1994 - 359 p.), as well as one on the act of reading popular novels, "Ça se lit comme un roman policier... Comprendre la lecture sérielle", (Québec, Editions Nota bene, Etudes culturelles, 1999 - 287 p. He is preparing an essay on the idea of the Western in French popular culture (from 1848 to today). He has edited several collective works, including: Amour, aventure et mystère ou : les romans qu'on ne peut pas lâcher (Québec, Editions Nota bene, 1998, 225 p.), Les hauts et les bas de l'imaginaire western (with R. Saint-Germain, Montréal, Triptyque, 1997 - 240 p.) and Armes, larmes, charmes. Sérialité et paralittérature (Québec, Nuit blanche éditeur, Etudes paralittéraires, 1995 - 293 p.). Another one, Hostilités. Guerre, mémoire, fiction et culture médiatique, dealing with the subject of war stories, is in preparation. He has also edited various thematic issues of different literary journals.

Charles Grivel

Charles Grivel teaches French literature and media studies at the University of Mannheim, in Germany. His research focuses on the popular novel, fantastic literature, "fin de siècle" literature, and the writers of the twenties. Among his other interests there are illustrated books and photography, particularly in its relationship with literature. Latest publications: "Dracula, de la mort à la vie", Les Cahiers de l'Herne, 1997; "Rodolphe Töpffer, Réflexions et menus propos d'un peintre genevois ou Essai sur le beau dans les arts. Suivi de: De la plaque Daguerre", Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1998. Fiction: La Retenue/La Presa. With 9 photographs by Erik Bullot. Catalan version by Jenaro Talens, Noésis, 1992.

Dominique Kalifa

Dominique Kalifa, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Rennes-2. Author of L'Encre et le sang. Récits de crimes et société à la Belle Epoque, Fayard, 1995, of Naissance de la police privée. Détectives et agences de recherches en France (1832-1942), Plon, 2000, and editor of the Nouvelle Revue des Etudes fantômassiennes, Joëlle Losfeld, 1993 as well of Les Exclus en Europe (1830-1930), L'Atelier, 1999.

Marc Lits

Marc Lits was born in 1953. He has a doctorate in philosophy and literature (UCL, 1988). He is presently President of the Department of Communications of the Université catholique de Louvain and Chair of the Observatoire du récit médiatique. He specializes in the analysis of paraliterary genres (Pour lire le roman policier, De Boeck Duculot; L'énigme criminelle, Didier Hatier ; Le fantastique, Didier Hatier) and the analysis of media narrative (La peur, la mort et les médias, Ed. Vie ouvrière ; Le roi est mort. Emotion et médias, Ed. Vie ouvrière; Récit, médias et société, Academia Bruylant; Le fait divers, PUF, coll. Que sais-je?). He is on the Editorial Board of the journals Hermès, Recherches en communication and Médiatiques. Récit et Société.

Jacques Migozzi

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the Université de Limoges and member of the Editorial Board of the collection "Littératures en marge" at the Limoges University Press (PULIM). He has co-directed since 1994 the Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures populaires and has organized, in this capacity, several international colloquia. He has published extensively on different aspects of the work of Jules Vallès, as well as on Emile Zola and on theoretical and methodological problems related to the study of popular literature.

Julia Wright

Julia M. Wright is Canada Research Chair in English & Cultural Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research and teaching have involved visual-verbal forms and the use of popular culture to political ends. She is the author of Blake, Nationalism, and the Politics of Alienation (Ohio UP, 2003), the editor of The Missionary: An Indian Tale by Sydney Owenson (Broadview, 2002) and a special issue of The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies on nineteenth-century Ireland (2004), and the co-editor of four essay collections, most recently Nervous Reactions: Victorian Recollections of Romanticism (SUNY, 2004) and Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century (Toronto, 2005).

Evaluation Committee

Driss Aïssaoui – Dalhousie University

Anne Bélanger – Dalhousie University

Francesco Ciabattoni – Dalhousie University

María José Giménez– Dalhousie University

Sophie Beaulé – Saint Mary's University

Désiré Nyela - Université du Québec à Montréal

Mélikah Abdelmoumen - Université du Québec à Montréal

Béatrice Vernier-Larochette – Lakehead University

Philippe Sohet – Université du Québec à Montréal

Rosmarin Heidenreich – Université du Manitoba

Richard Saint-Gelais – Université Laval

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