Maxime Blanchard, Ph.D., Harvard University, D.E.A., Université de Paris-lV, M.A., University of Minnesota, B.A., Université de Montréal, Associate Professor of French. He specializes in 20th and 21st Century French and Québécois literature. He is the author of S'engager: l'intellectuel dans l'oeuvre d'André Malraux (Arras: Presses de l'Université d'Artois, 2008). He has worked on Fernand Dumont, Simone Weil, Michel Tremblay, and Marcel Proust. His current research project deals with literary and cinematographic reprensentations of Jean Moulin, the French résistant. His latest book, Le Québec n'existe pas, an essay against globalization, was published in 2017.

Ph.D., Harvard University.