Susan Pinette

Susan Pinette

Professor of Modern Languages

Director of Franco American Programs

https://umaine.edu/francoamerican/

115 Crossland Hall

Orono, ME 04469

(207) 581-3791

 

Selected Publications

“« BEAU-FROG » : Une Lacune dans l’histoire des Franco-américains,”for Recherches sociographiques, Nouveaux regards sur l’émigration canadienne-française et la Franco-Américanie, sous la direction d’Yves Frenette et Danielle Gauvreau, Recherches sociographiques 65.2-3, 2024: 547-562

“Franco American Newspapers and Periodicals in the Northeast: An Inventory” co-authored with Jacob Albert, Quebec Studies 76.1 (2024): 3-36.

” La presse francophone des communautés canadiennes-françaises aux États-Unis du 19ème et 20ème siècle face au publique franco-américain d’aujourd’hui” co-authored with Jacob Albert, in La presse francophone publiée dans les Amériques : la presse allophone et les identités nationales, co-edited by Valéria dos Santos Guimarães and Guillaume Pinson, University of Laval Press, 2024: 279-290.

“A tranquille case study of culture clash between community and university Franco American programs, 1989-1992, and its consequences” co-authored with Joseph Arsenault Jr. in Becoming Modern: the University of Maine, 1965-2015, co-edited by Howard Segal and Ann Acheson, University of Maine Press, 2023.

“Horrible Mothers in Mémère’s Kitchen: Queer Identity in New England Franco-America” in Horrible Mothers: Failing Motherhood Across Francophone North America, edited by Loic Bourdeau, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln), 2019: 41-56.

“Jack Kerouac’s French, American, and Quebecois Receptions: From Deterritorialization to Reterritorialization” Esprit Créateur 58.4 (2018): 120-133

“Un “étonnant mutisme:” l’invisibilité des franco-américains” in La jeune francophonie américaine: Langue et culture chez les jeunes d’héritage francophone aux Etats-Unis d’Amérique, edited by Joseph Price, Harmattan Press (Paris), 2018.

“‘La Langue est gardienne’: French language and Identity in Franco-American Literature,” Quebec Studies 53 (2012): 45-61.

“Diderot’s Dialogic Difference,” French Review: The Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French, 81.2 (2007): 339-350.

“Teaching Franco-Americans of the Northeast,” French Review: The Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French, 80.6 (2007): 1352-60.

“‘Des dialogues curieux’: Knowledge Production in the Works of Lahontan,” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, 35.1 (2006): 23-40.

“The Importance of the Literary: Lahontan’s Dialogues and Primitivist Thought,” Prose Studies, 28 (2006): 41-53.

“Jack Kerouac : l’écriture et l’identité franco-américaine,” Francophonies d’Amériques, 17 (2004) : 35-43.

“Franco American Studies in the Footsteps of Robert Leblanc,” Quebec Studies, 33 (2002): 9-14.

 

General Editor

Paige, Abby. Piecework/Travail à la pièce, two plays. Éditions Reveil. University of Maine Press 2025

Rooks, Douglas. First Franco: Albert Beliveau in Law, Politics, and Love. Franco American Programs in Association with University of Maine Press 2021