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Dr. Denis M. Provencher is Associate Professor of French and Intercultural Communication and Affiliate Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
He is the author of Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France (Ashgate 2007) (voir la couverture de l'ouvrage en pdf), and co-editor of a special issue of Contemporary French Civilization on the Ambiguous Legacies of the Liberation of France.
His research examines the linguistic and semiotic representation of homophobia, citizenship, national identity, gender and sexuality in literature, mass and popular culture (television, film, graphic novels, maps, school manuals), and language data derived from ethnographic field work in France.
He is completing a translation of Chocolat Chaud by Rachid O and is also working on a new monograph that will examine issues of homosexuality, Maghrebi cultures, and Islam in France.
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Queer French (Ashgate, 2007) de Denis M. Provencher constitue une contribution originale à l’étude de la citoyenneté sexuelle dans la France contemporaine.
Dans cette présentation, il examinera la tension entre les articulations anglo-saxonnes et françaises de l’homosexualité et la citoyenneté sexuelle en analysant leurs émergences dans une variété de productions culturelles de masse ainsi que dans les témoignages tirés de ses entrevues ethnographiques sur le ‘coming-out’.
Il argue que les expériences françaises de l’homosexualité sont imaginées et construites avec l’aide d’un langage (gay) et authentiquement français qui réunit plusieurs discours canoniques y compris ceux de Jean Genet et Jean-Paul Sartre ainsi que le discours universalisant du républicanisme français. Son études démontre comment l’approche anglo-saxonne de la citoyenneté et du multiculturalisme est mise en question dans le contexte français où les gays et lesbiennes français acceptent et rejettent à des degrés variables les notions de communautarisme et appartenance selon leur niveau d’intégration en France qui s’informe à la fois de leur statut social, ethnicité ou race.
Pendant cette communication, il discutera aussi les défis auxquels il a dû faire face pour documenter l’(in)visibilité des beurs homos dans la France contemporaine.
 Publications récentes:
“(Re)Casting Sami Bouajila: A (Male) Model of Integration, Belonging, and Citizenship.” Screening Immigration and Integration in Contemporary France. Eds. Vinay Swamy and Sylvie Durmelat. University of Nebraska Press (forthcoming). Co-author, Murray Pratt.
“‘I Dislike Politicians and Homosexuals’: Language and Homophobia in Contemporary France.” Gender and Language (forthcoming 2009).
“One in Ten: Teaching Tolerance for (Class) Difference, Ambiguity, and Queerness in the Intercultural Classroom.” Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class. Eds. Richard Johnson III and Kenneth Oldfield. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008: 63-81.
“Tracing Sexual Citizenship and Queerness in Drôle de Félix (2000) and Tarik el hob (2003).” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies (SITES) 12.1 (2008): 51-61.
Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France. Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007
France, 1940-44: The Ambiguous Legacy. Special Issue of Contemporary French Civilization 31. 2 (2007).
“Mapping Gay Paris: Language, Space and Sexuality in the Marais.” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies (SITES) 11.1 (2007): 37-46.
“The Nation According to Lavisse: Teaching Masculinity and Male Citizenship in Third-Republic France.” French Cultural Studies 18.1 (2007): 31-57. Co-author, Luke L. Eilderts.
“Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBC’s Will & Grace.” The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed. Eds. Mary M. Dalton and Laura R. Linder. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. 177-189.
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