Caroline-Isabelle Caron joined the History department faculty in 2002.
Her specialty is 19th and 20th-century Francophone cultural history. In her research, she looks at representations of the past, in the form of genealogies and commemorations, and at representations of the future, in the form of science fiction, to get a better sense, a closer glimpse, at Acadian and Qu茅bec collective encyclopedias, in Umberto Eco's sense of the word, i.e. the sum of the experiences and representations possessed by a person, and more generally, by a collectivity, which enables them to understand their world, and act and react to various experiences. She is recently concluded a major research project on Acadian commemorations in 19th and 20th century Nova Scotia. Her new project looks at Quebec 20th-century societal anxieties as reflected in speculative fiction and media since the mid-20th century.
Strange Novel Worlds: Essays on Star Trek Tie-In Fiction
Se cr茅er des anc锚tres. Un parcours g茅n茅alogique nord-am茅ricain, 19e-20e si猫cles
Website
- Jerome : Mystery Man of Baie Sainte-Marie/J茅r么me: Mystery Man of Baie Sainte-Marie, in coll. with Lise A. Robicheau, on the Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History Website, Launched 15 April 2007.
- 2008 recipient MERLOT award for best educational website
- 2008 recipient Pierre Berton Award for an outstanding contribution to the popularization of Canadian histor
Articles and Book Chapters
- 芦 La g茅n茅alogie au Qu茅bec et en Acadie depuis la fin du XXIe si猫cle et son 茅volution de la fin du si猫cle dernier. 禄 In Faire son temps. Usages publics du passe虂 dans les francophonies nord-ame虂ricaines, Martin P芒quet, ed., PUL (Coll. 芦 Culture fran莽aise d鈥橝m茅rique-C脡FAN 禄), 2017: 133-149;
- 芦 Of Exoduses and Raptures: A Theological look at Battlestar Galactica 禄, TV/S脡RIES, no th茅matique 芦 Philosopher avec Battlestar Galactica 禄, 11 (2017) :
- "'It's All in Books!' : Time Travel and Pedagogy in Television's Voyagers!". In Time Travel Television. The Past from the Present, the Future from the Past, Sherry Ginn and Gillian I. Leitch, eds. Lanham, et al., Rowman & Littlefield, 2015: 93-103.
- 鈥淟'Acadie dans la t锚te : repr茅sentations g茅n茅alogiques de l'Acadie ancienne au Qu茅bec鈥, In Actes du colloque L鈥橝cadie des origines : mythes et figurations d鈥檜n parcours litt茅raire et historique, Jean Morency, H茅l猫ne Destrempe and James de Finney, eds. Sudbury, 脡ditions Prise de Parole, 2011: 57-70.
- 芦 Note de recherche: Y'a jamais eu de Grand D茅rangement. Repr茅sentations acadiennes de la D茅portation au XXe si猫cle 禄, Mens, XI.1 (aut. 2010) : 78-93.
- "Pour une nouvelle vision de l'Acadie" dans Balises et r茅f茅rences. Acadies, francophonies, In Martin P芒quet and St茅phane Rivard, eds., PUL (Coll. "Culture fran莽aise d'Am茅rique-C脡FAN"), 2007 : 433-460.
- "Translating Trek: Re-writing an American Icon in a Francophone Context", Journal of American Culture, 26.3 (Sept. 2003): 329-55:
