Denis Michael Provencher
linguistics, pragmatics, cultural studies, migration and diaspora studies, intersectionality, queer futures, France, Maghreb, Quebec, intercultural communication, LGBTQ studies
Dr. Denis M. Provencher is Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Affairs and Partnerships and Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at North Carolina State University. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the interdisciplinary journals Contemporary French Civilization (CFC) and CFC Intersections, and as the co-editor of the book series, Modern & Contemporary France, all published by Liverpool University Press. more
Works (58)
2024 article
Editors’ Introduction
Celestin, R., Durand, A.-P., & Provencher, D. M. (2024, August 7). Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Vol. 28, pp. 521–527.
2023 article
Introduction to the broken mirror: Christine and the Queens, identities, queerness, Frenchness
Munro, M., Tinker, C., & Provencher, D. M. (2023, December 16). Contemporary French Civilization, Vol. 48, pp. 307–311.
2023 chapter book
Transnational Approaches to Language and Sexuality
2022 journal article
Introducing CFC Intersections
CFC Intersections, 1(1), 1–12.
2021 book
Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations: Non-Places, Affect, and Temporalities
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
2021 chapter
Abdellah Taïa’s transfilial myth making and unfaithful realms of memory
In D. M. Provencher & S. Bouamer (Eds.), Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations: Non-Places, Affect, and Temporalities (pp. 219–255). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
2021 book review
Le sexe et ses doubles: (Homo)sexualités en postcolonie
[Review of Le sexe et ses doubles: (Homo)sexualités en postcolonie., by P. Awondo]. H-France Review, 21(37). https://h-france.net/vol21reviews/vol21no37Provencher.pdf
2020 journal article
Contemporary French Civilization s : an introduction
Contemporary French Civilization . Contemporary French Civilization, 45(3-4), 263–269.
2020 chapter
Diasporic Sexual Citizenship: Queer Language, (Im)Possible Subjects, and Transfiliation
In K. Hall & E. R. Barrett (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality.
Ed(s): K. Hall & E. Barrett
2020 chapter
Trans/filiations épistémologiques: Ecrire la famille, la révolution et un nouveau Maroc dans ‘Lettre à ma famille’ et ‘Le chaouche’” = Epistemological Trans/filiations: Writing the family, revolution and a new Morocco in ‘Letter to my family’ and ‘The civil servant’
Trans/filiations épistémologiques: Ecrire la famille, la révolution et un nouveau Maroc dans ‘Lettre à ma famille’ et ‘Le chaouche’” = Epistemological Trans/filiations: Writing the family, revolution and a new Morocco in ‘Letter to my family’ and ‘The civil servant.’ In Abdellah Taïa. Poétique et politique du désir engagé = Abdellah Taïa. Poetics and Politics of Engaged Desire (pp. 229–243). Paris: Editions Passage.
2018 journal article
2Fik’s deal with the devil: a queer and transfilial remix of “La chasse-galerie” at Montreal’s Festival TransAmérique
Contemporary French Civilization, 43(3-4), 487–495.
2018 journal article
Introduction: queer (again and again) in Quebec
Contemporary French Civilization, 43(3-4), 321–324.
2018 book
Queer Maghrebi French
In Liverpool University Press eBooks.
2018 chapter
“Je suis terroriste, pédé et le fils de Marilyn Monroe”: Cinematic Stars and Transfiliaton in Abdellah Taïa’s Infidèles (2012)
In V. K. Orlando & P. A. Pears (Eds.), Paris and the Marginalized Author: Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile (pp. 153–166). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Ed(s): V. Orlando & P. Pears
2017 chapter
(Re)Casting Sami Bouajla: An Ambiguous Model of Integration, Belonging, and Citizenship
In S. Durmelat & V. Swamy (Eds.), Screening Integration (pp. 194–210).
Ed(s): S. Durmelat & V. Swamy
2017 book review
Queer Theory: The French Response
[Review of Queer Theory: The French Response, by B. Perreau]. EuropeNow: A Journal of Research & Art. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2017/07/05/queer-theory-the-french-response-by-bruno-perreau/
2016 journal article
Farid’s impossible “je”
Farid’s impossible “je.” Journal of Language and Sexuality, 5(1), 113–139.
2016 journal article
Introduction: Contemporary French Civilization at 40
Contemporary French Civilization, 41(3-4), 359–363.
2016 journal article
Queer (Again) in Québec
Quebec Studies, 61, 111–114.
2015 journal article
Feeling, Doing, Acting, Seeing, Being Queer in Québec: Michel Marc Bouchard, Rodrigue Jean, and the Queer Québec Colloquium
Quebec Studies, 60, 3–22.
2015 chapter
Sami Bouajila: les mille et un visages du Français beur
In S. Dumerlat & V. Swamy (Eds.), Les écrans de l’intégration (pp. 245–263). Paris: Presses universitaires de Vincennes.
Ed(s): S. Dumerlat & V. Swamy
2014 journal article
Stepping back from queer theory: Language, fieldwork and the everyday in sexuality studies in France
French Cultural Studies, 25(3-4), 408–417.
2013 journal article
Introduction: Maghrebi-French Sexualities
Modern & Contemporary France, 21(2), 139–146.
2013 journal article
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed’s performance of universal French citizenship and good Muslim brotherhood
French Cultural Studies, 24(3), 279–292.
2011 journal article
Coming Outà l'oriental: Maghrebi-French Performances of Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Journal of Homosexuality, 58(6-7), 812–833.
2011 journal article
Language Matters: An Introduction
Journal of Homosexuality, 58(6-7), 709–718.
2010 journal article
'I Dislike Politicians and Homosexuals'
Gender and Language, 4(2), 287–321.
2009 book review
Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation
[Review of Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation, by P. A. Silverstein]. Contemporary French Civilization, 33(1), 241–244.
2009 journal article
Running Scared: masculinity and the representation of the male body
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 29(2), 260–262.
2008 book review
Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France
[Review of Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France, by J. Laurence & J. Vaisse]. Contemporary French Civilization, 32(1), 223–226.
2008 chapter
One in Ten: Teaching Tolerance for (Class) Difference, Ambiguity, and Queerness in the Intercultural Classroom
In R. Johnson III & K. Oldfield (Eds.), Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class (pp. 63–81). State University of New York Press.
Ed(s): R. Johnson & K. Oldfield
2008 journal article
Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities
SubStance, 37(2), 132–137.
2008 journal article
Tracing Sexual Citizenship and Queerness in Drôle de Félix (2000) and Tarik el hob (2001)
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 12(1), 51–61.
2007 journal article
French Gay Modernism
SubStance, 36(1), 178–183.
2007 book review
Gay TV and Straight America
[Review of Gay TV and Straight America, by R. Becker]. Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, 27(3), 451–453.
2007 journal article
INTRODUCTION: FRANCE, 1940-1944: THE AMBIGUOUS LEGACY
Contemporary French Civilization, 31(2), 1–7.
2007 magazine article
Maghrebi-French Sexual Citizens: In and Out on the Big Screen
Provencher, D. M. (2007, January). Cineaste: America’s Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema., XXXIII(1), 47–51.
2007 journal article
Mapping Gay Paris: Language, Space and Sexuality in the Marais
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 11(1), 37–46.
2007 book
Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France
Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Routledge/Ashgate.
2007 book review
Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870–1920 (review)
[Review of Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920, by J. Surkis]. Nineteenth Century French Studies, 35(3), 670–672.
2007 book review
The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France
[Review of The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France, by E. McCaffrey]. Contemporary French Civilization, 31(1), 229–233.
2007 journal article
The Nation According to Lavisse
French Cultural Studies, 18(1), 31–57.
2006 book review
Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices (review)
[Review of Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices, by J. I. Abecassis]. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 24(4), 160–162.
2006 book review
Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age
[Review of Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age, by H. Lebovics]. Contemporary French Civilization, 30(1), 181–184.
2006 book review
Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture
[Review of Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture, by S. Redhead]. The French Review, 79(4), 63–64.
2005 chapter
Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBC’s Will & Grace
Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBC’s Will & Grace. In M. M. Dalton & L. R. Linder (Eds.), The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed (pp. 177–189). State University of New York Press.
Ed(s): M. Dalton & L. Linder
2005 report
Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in and Audience Responses to NBC’s Will and Grace
New York, New York: The Center for the Study of Media and Society, GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
2004 book review
Disenchanting Les Bons Temps: Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance
[Review of Disenchanting Les Bons Temps: Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance, by C. J. Stivale]. The French Review, 77(5), 1048–1049.
2004 journal article
Figures of Alterity: French Realism and Its Others
SubStance, 33(3), 183.
2003 book review
AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures
[Review of AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures, by D. Caron]. The French Review, 76(4), 843–844.
2003 chapter
Press
In H. Dauncey (Ed.), French Popular Culture: An Introduction (pp. 34–47). Oxford: Oxford University Press/Arnold Publishing.
Ed(s): H. Dauncey
2003 journal article
QUEER STUDIES IN FRANCE
Contemporary French Civilization, 27(2), 406–416.
2002 journal article
THE NEXT GENE(T)RATION: AUTHENTICITY AND (HOMO) SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH GAY CULTURE
Contemporary French Civilization, 26(2), 335–346.
2002 journal article
VAGUE ENGLISH CREOLE: (GAY ENGLISH) COOPERATIVE DISCOURSE IN THE FRENCH GAY PRESS
Contemporary French Civilization, 26(1), 86–110.
2001 book review
A toute vitesse
[Review of A toute vitesse, by G. Morel]. The French Review, 74(6), 1256–1257.
2001 book review
L’Aventure américaine de l’oeuvre de François Truffaut
[Review of L’Aventure américaine de l’oeuvre de François Truffaut, by L. Alfonsi]. The French Review, 75(2), 409–410.
2001 journal article
The linguistic representation of femininity and masculinity in Jean Genet's Notre-Dame des Fleurs
French Cultural Studies, 12(34), 043–058.
2000 book
Manuel d’exercices pour accompagner A la française
Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
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