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)

Updated: April 25th, 2025 18:24

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.

By: R. Celestin, A. Durand & D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex):
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 23, 2024

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.

By: M. Munro*, C. Tinker & D. Provencher n

topics (OpenAlex): Scottish History and National Identity; Irish and British Studies
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 4, 2024

2023 chapter book

Transnational Approaches to Language and Sexuality

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Gender Studies in Language
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

2022 journal article

Introducing CFC Intersections

CFC Intersections, 1(1), 1–12.

By: S. Bouamer* & D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Legal Issues in South Africa; Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments; Cancer-related gene regulation
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

2021 book

Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations: Non-Places, Affect, and Temporalities

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Denis Provencher

Ed(s): D. Provencher & S. Bouamer

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 7, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Ed(s): D. Provencher & S. Bouamer

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 7, 2023

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

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 7, 2023

2020 journal article

Contemporary French Civilization s : an introduction

Contemporary French Civilization . Contemporary French Civilization, 45(3-4), 263–269.

By: N. Bazgan*, A. Durand* & D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): French Urban and Social Studies
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher* & D. Peterson*

Ed(s): K. Hall & E. Barrett

topics (OpenAlex): Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies; Gender Studies in Language; Multilingual Education and Policy
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 4, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Music History and Culture; Cinema and Media Studies; Canadian Identity and History
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

2018 journal article

Introduction: queer (again and again) in Quebec

Contemporary French Civilization, 43(3-4), 321–324.

By: C. Batson* & D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): French Historical and Cultural Studies; African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues; Canadian Identity and History
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

2018 book

Queer Maghrebi French

In Liverpool University Press eBooks.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender; French Historical and Cultural Studies; North African History and Literature
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Ed(s): V. Orlando & P. Pears

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

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).

By: M. Pratt & D. Provencher*

Ed(s): S. Durmelat & V. Swamy

topics (OpenAlex):
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

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/

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

2016 journal article

Farid’s impossible “je”

Farid’s impossible “je.” Journal of Language and Sexuality, 5(1), 113–139.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies; Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender; Political and Social Issues
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

2016 journal article

Introduction: Contemporary French Civilization at 40

Contemporary French Civilization, 41(3-4), 359–363.

By: D. Provencher*, S. Harris* & N. Bazgan*

topics (OpenAlex): French Historical and Cultural Studies
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

2016 journal article

Queer (Again) in Québec

Quebec Studies, 61, 111–114.

By: C. Batson* & D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy; African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues; Canadian Identity and History
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

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.

By: C. Batson* & D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Canadian Identity and History
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher & M. Pratt

Ed(s): S. Dumerlat & V. Swamy

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender; Education, sociology, and vocational training; Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

2013 journal article

Introduction: Maghrebi-French Sexualities

Modern & Contemporary France, 21(2), 139–146.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender; Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality; Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

2013 journal article

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed’s performance of universal French citizenship and good Muslim brotherhood

French Cultural Studies, 24(3), 279–292.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender; Political and Social Issues; North African History and Literature
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

2011 journal article

Coming Outà l'oriental: Maghrebi-French Performances of Gender, Sexuality, and Religion

Journal of Homosexuality, 58(6-7), 812–833.

By: D. Provencher*

MeSH headings : Adult; Africa, Northern / ethnology; Art; France; Gender Identity; Homosexuality, Male / psychology; Humans; Male; Religion and Sex; Self Disclosure
topics (OpenAlex): Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender; North African History and Literature; Political and Social Issues
TL;DR: It is argued that 2Fik's story and photography provide him a unique voice that draws on feminist and queer perspectives—informed by both reformed Islam and contemporary Western values—to “decline” and rewrite longstanding stereotypes of Islam in France. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

2011 journal article

Language Matters: An Introduction

Journal of Homosexuality, 58(6-7), 709–718.

By: W. Leap* & D. Provencher*

MeSH headings : Female; Homosexuality; Humans; Language; Male
topics (OpenAlex): Multilingual Education and Policy; Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies; Gender Studies in Language
TL;DR: This special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality explores language-centered insights as they apply to same-sex related desires, identities, and practices and to other dimensions of non-normative sexual experiences. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

2010 journal article

'I Dislike Politicians and Homosexuals'

Gender and Language, 4(2), 287–321.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

2009 journal article

Running Scared: masculinity and the representation of the male body

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 29(2), 260–262.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Gender Roles and Identity Studies
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Ed(s): R. Johnson & K. Oldfield

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

2008 journal article

Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities

SubStance, 37(2), 132–137.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex):
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): French Historical and Cultural Studies; Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies; Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

2007 journal article

French Gay Modernism

SubStance, 36(1), 178–183.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): French Historical and Cultural Studies; Literature and Culture Studies
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

2007 journal article

INTRODUCTION: FRANCE, 1940-1944: THE AMBIGUOUS LEGACY

Contemporary French Civilization, 31(2), 1–7.

By: D. Provencher* & A. Sobanet

topics (OpenAlex): French Historical and Cultural Studies; Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

2007 journal article

Mapping Gay Paris: Language, Space and Sexuality in the Marais

Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 11(1), 37–46.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies; Migration, Identity, and Health; Political and Social Issues
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

2007 book

Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France

Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Routledge/Ashgate.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): French Historical and Cultural Studies; Historical Gender and Feminism Studies; Historical Education Studies Worldwide
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

2007 journal article

The Nation According to Lavisse

French Cultural Studies, 18(1), 31–57.

By: D. Provencher* & L. Eilderts*

topics (OpenAlex): Historical Gender and Feminism Studies; Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy; History of Education in Spain
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 6, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Ed(s): M. Dalton & L. Linder

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 7, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

2004 journal article

Figures of Alterity: French Realism and Its Others

SubStance, 33(3), 183.

By: D. Provencher* & L. Schehr

topics (OpenAlex): European Political History Analysis; French Historical and Cultural Studies; Political and Social Issues
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

2003 chapter

Press

In H. Dauncey (Ed.), French Popular Culture: An Introduction (pp. 34–47). Oxford: Oxford University Press/Arnold Publishing.

By: D. Provencher

Ed(s): H. Dauncey

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

2003 journal article

QUEER STUDIES IN FRANCE

Contemporary French Civilization, 27(2), 406–416.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex):
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies; Cultural Identity and Heritage; Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

2002 journal article

VAGUE ENGLISH CREOLE: (GAY ENGLISH) COOPERATIVE DISCOURSE IN THE FRENCH GAY PRESS

Contemporary French Civilization, 26(1), 86–110.

By: D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research; Gender Studies in Language; LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

2001 book review

A toute vitesse

[Review of A toute vitesse, by G. Morel]. The French Review, 74(6), 1256–1257.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

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.

By: D. Provencher

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

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.

By: B. Bullock & D. Provencher*

topics (OpenAlex): Gender Studies in Language; Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies; French Historical and Cultural Studies
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 5, 2023

2000 book

Manuel d’exercices pour accompagner A la française

Lanham, MD: University Press of America.

By: D. Provencher & M. Geno

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: October 12, 2023

Employment

Updated: October 4th, 2023 07:32

2023 - present

North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Associate Dean Interdisciplinary Affairs and Partnerships

2015 - 2023

University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona, US
Department Head and Professor French and Italian

2005 - 2015

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Catonsville, Maryland, US
Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication

1998 - 2005

University of Wisconsin–La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Assistant/Associate Professor Modern Languages

Education

Updated: October 4th, 2023 07:37

1994 - 1998

Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania, US
Ph.D. in French Civilization and Cultural Studies French and Francophone Studies

1988 - 1992

University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont, US
B.A. French Romance Languages

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