A Franglais Kind of Life

Current Research

  • Art of Post-Colonial Africa

Past Research Topics
(Listed chronologically, most recent)

  • Honors thesis -- English-dominant monolingualism in multicultural societies (spec. South Africa), within the context of the Catholic Church and the updated English Roman Missal
  • The place (socially/economically) of the Congolese (DRC) in South Africa
  • Connections between Europe's Christian Mary and Ancient Egypt's Isis
  • The sole use of 'feminist' versus specified feminisms in today's third wave (Paper in French)
  • Study abroad programmes and the global financial crisis (Paper in French)
  • 'Multiethnolingualism': Monolingualism in South Africa's five multicultural/lingual archdioceses and its initial reactions to the updated English Roman Missal
  • Jesuit education and involvement in Québec (Paper in French)
  • Conversion to Christianity through the Medieval Cult of Saints in Central Africa
  • UNESCO and its role in today's cultural world (Paper in French)
  • Catholicism and Islam in the Philippines
  • Catholicism in French Louisiana (Paper in French)

Research Interests

  • African art
  • Anthropology (food, linguistic, sociocultural)
  • Catholicism
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Culture
  • Endangered/Extinct languages
  • Ethnicity
  • Francophone culture
  • French (and regional dialects: Cajun/Créole, Québecois)
  • South Africa
  • World Religions