Vincent  Bouchard

Vincent Bouchard

Associate Professor, French and Italian

Education

  • Ph.D., littérature comparée, Université de Montréal, 2006
  • Ph.D., études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles, université Paris III, Sorbonne nouvelle, 2006
  • M.A. and Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA), études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles, université Lyon 2, 1999

Research interests

  • Francophone cultures in West Africa and North America
  • Cultural studies (popular cultures, audio-visual media, reception)

About Vincent Bouchard

My research deals with the audiovisual mediation of orality (speech and gesture), from a technical (medium, practices, institutions) and cultural (popular cultures, reception, aesthetic) perspectives, with a main focus on Francophone cultures in West Africa (Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso) and in North America (Quebec, Acadia, Louisiana).

I currently work on the various forms of cinematographic practives developed in West Africa since the 1960’s, including the conditions experienced by early filmmakers, the popular reception of films, and the practices of educational and colonial screenings and their impact on African cinema.

Selected publications

Books

Articles

Invited papers

Courses taught

Undergraduate courses

  • Cinéma québécois (CIN 1045, U. de Montréal)
  • Les genres et le cinéma (CIN 1109, U. de Montréal)
  • Mouvements de l'histoire du cinéma (CIN 2010, U. de Montréal)
  • Dispositifs cinématographiques (CIN 2106, U. de Montréal)
  • Francophone Media Studies (F222, Indiana U-B)
  • Cinéma des différences (CIN 3101, U. de Montréal)
  • Cinéma canadien et québécois (CMN 3597, U. of Ottawa)
  • L’Afrique de l'Ouest francophone (FRIT F300, Indiana U.)
  • European Cinema and Genre (FRIT F311, Indiana U.)
  • Francophone Popular Cultures (French 322, UL)
  • Étude de réception (CMN 4566, U. of Ottawa)
  • Film Genre (Humanities 400, UL Lafayette)
  • La Francophonie nord américaine (F460, Indiana U-B)
  • Theory of Francophone Film (French 455, UL Lafayette)
  • A short History of French Cinema (French 455, UL Lafayette)

Graduate courses

  • Séminaire de méthodologie de DEA (FLSH, UCAD, Dakar)
  • Questions de représentation (French 502, UL Lafayette)
  • Médiatisation de l'oralité (French 502, UL Lafayette)
  • Cinémas francophones mineurs (French 502, UL Lafayette)
  • Étude de réception (French 502, UL Lafayette)
  • Séminaire de méthodologie (French 541, UL Lafayette)
  • Montréal et l'américanité (French 655, UL Lafayette)
  • Séminaire sur l'intermédialité (FRIT 652, Indiana U-B)
  • Le Québec au XXe siècle (French 681, UL Lafayette)
  • Francophone Cinemas (FRIT 825, Indiana U-B)

Honors, fellowships, & awards

  • 2018: CAHI Fellows in Residence (Indiana U., Fall 2018). Book Project: The Film Commentator in West Africa (Indiana U.)
  • 2017: New Frontiers/New Currents (NFNC), Workshop Organization: Media and Tertiary Memory (Indiana U., October 2017)
  • 2016: Mellon Short Term Faculty Fellowship (Paris – Summer 2016) Research Project: The Film Commentator in West Africa
  • 2015: Short-Term Faculty Exchanges (Indiana University), at the Institut für Afrikastudien (IAS – Bayreuth University) – Research Project: The Film Commentator in Africa
  • Grants for Researchers, Délégation du Québec (2011)
  • Summer Research Awards, UL Lafayette (2010)
  • Post-Doctoral Research Grant: Mobilité francophone (AUF, 2009)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire NT2 – UQAM (FQRSC, 2007-2009)