Mercédès Baillargeon is an assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of twentieth- and twenty-first-century first-person narrative, the intersection between public/private spaces and discourses, and the (de)construction of personal and/or collective identities. She has contributed to several edited volumes, and has published in the journals Québec Studies, Women in French Studies. She is coediting an upcoming special issue of the journal Contemporary French Civilization on “The Transnationalism of Québec Cinema and (New) Media” with Karine Bertrand (Queen’s University). She is also a coeditor for a collection of essays on third-wave feminism in Québec, Remous, ressacs et dérivations autour de la troisième vague féministe, published by Éditions du Remue-ménage in 2011. Her current research explores the question of (post/trans)nationalism in Québec cinema of the new millennium.
