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BIOGRAPHY

Marguerite Andersen is an accomplished writer and lecturer. She has taught French and translation (English, French and German) at several universities and has also worked as a translator and interpreter for diplomats and writers. Dr. Andersen was the editor of Canada’s first feminist anthology in the 1970s, Mother was not a person. She has written several novels, short story collections and plays.

Marguerite Andersen taught XXth century French literature and Women's Studies at Guelph, Concordia and Mount St. Vincent University in Halifax. She received in 1999 a doctorate honoris causa from Mount Saint Vincent. She is the author of several books of French poetry and fiction. A Quebec critic called Les Crus de l’Esplanade, her latest collection of short stories, one of the best of 1998. Marguerite teaches intermediate and senior French, as well as philosophy, at The Toronto Linden School.

PUBLICATIONS

FICTION

NON FICTION

TRANSLATION / TRADUCTION

  • Industrial Cathedrals of the North / Les Cathédrales industrielles du Nord by Louie Palu and Charlie Angus,(Marguerite Andersen, trad.), Between the Lines et Prise de Parole, 1998, 91 p. 1-896357-18-0 ; 289423-103-2.

THEATRE / THÉÂTRE

  • "La Fête", Prix O'Neill-Karsh, mises en lecture Théâtre La Catapulte, Ottawa, 1997 et Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury, 1996.
  • "Christiane : Stations in a Painter's Life", Festival The Gathering, Factory Theatre, Toronto, 1996.

SOME CHAPTERS...

  • "The Toronto Linden School", in Active Engagements, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, 2001, article écrit en collaboration avec trois collègues, p.23-34.
  • "Les études féministes, source de force intérieure", in Témoignages, Reflections on the Humanities, Fédération canadienne des études humaines, Ottawa, 1993, p. 105-111.
  • "Nicole Brossard, stratège de l'imaginaire". in Le Roman contemporain au Québec (1960-1985), Archives des Lettres canadiennes, Tome VIII, Montréal, Fides, 1992, p. 171-187.
  • "La critique féministe, minoritaire et trouble-fête", in Suzanne Lamy et Irène Pagès, Féminité, Subversion, Écriture, Montréal, remue-ménage, 1983, p. 259-265.
  • "Feminism as a Criterion of the Literary Critic", in Cheryl L. Brown and Karen Olson, Feminist Criticism: Essays on Theory, Poetry and Prose, The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, N.J., 1978, p.1-10.

LITERARY TEXTS

  • "Tel père, tel fils ?", Mœbius, (Spring 2001), p. 77-78.
  • "Confession", Le Sabord (Spring 2001), p. 6-7.
  • "Poème sans titre", Le Sabord (Spring 1998), p. 18.
  • "Le Corps écrit", Le Sabord (Winter 1997), p. 36.
  • "Le Punch", éloizes, revue acadienne de création, numéro 34, 1997, p. 36.
  • "Le Cadeau maternel", Mœbius, (Spring1996) , p. 83-87.
  • "Toute droite", Le Sabord (Autumn 1993), p. 14-16.
  • "Multi-urbaine", Arcade (Spring 1992), p. 37-39.
  • "Je est une autre", Mœbius (Spring 1992), p. 11-12.
  • Environ 300 comptes rendus, de nombreux articles dans des revues canadiennes et étrangères, dont
    «La jouissance, principe d'écriture», L'Esprit créateur, Summer 1979) Vol. XIX, No. 2, p.1-12; "La situation des universités ontariennes", Perspectives universitaires, revue de l'AUPELF, Vol. III, numéros 1 et 2, p. 67-72.

De 1975 à 2000, Marguerite Andersen a été une des éditrices de RFR/DRF, Documentation sur la recherche féministe.

Since 1998, Marguerite Andersen has been the editor of the francophone short story quarterly VIRAGES.

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