Faculty of Arts & Science
Modern Languages

Faculty members at the University of Lethbridge are happy to involve undergraduate students in their research projects. Our faculty members often collaborate with other departments, community members and employers on research projects — giving you the opportunity to get additional hands-on experience.

The Department of Modern Languages is home to a rich and varied group of research areas, including:

Literatures:

French

• Early twentieth-century French women novelists.
• Monstrosity in Quebec literature and other francophone literatures
• Quebec author, Gérard Bessette (1920-2005).
• Silence as a subversive literary device in Quebec Literature.
• French nineteenth-century literature (in particular Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert),
  
• Representations of gender and sexual difference

Spanish:

• Textual criticism of plays by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600 - 1681)
• Sixteenth-century Spanish women's writing (particularly Teresa of Avila)
• Spanish Golden Age theatre

First Nations languages

• Blackfoot grammar
• Michif grammar

Applied linguistics

• Language Pedagogy
• Second Language Acquisition
• L2 Language Socialization
• CALT (Computer Assisted Language Teaching)
• Aboriginal language revitalization
• Pedagogy
• Computer analysis of student writing

Theoretical linguistics

• Lexical-Functional Syntax
• Pragmatics
• Discourse Analysis
• Phonetics & Phonology

Sociolinguistics

• English in Southern Alberta
• First Nations English Dialects
• French in the Prairies