Dr. Elaine Cancalon (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley), who retired in July 2001, specializes in 20th Century French literature, especially André Gide, Critical theory (structuralism and narratology) and Quebec literature. She is the author of Techniques et personnages dans les récits d'André Gide (Archives des Lettres modernes, 1979), Fairy-tale Structures and Motifs in Le Grand Meaulnes (Herbert Lang, Bern, 1975) and co-edited Intertextuality in Literature and Film (UP of Florida, 1994).  She is the head of the American branch of the Association des Amis d'André Gide and has published widely on him in French Forum, Dalhousie French Studies, and French Literature Series.

Dr. Cancolon has received a COFRS grant (1982) and was awarded a grant from the Canadian government in 1987 to study Quebec literature.  She is now an active scholar in that field and has worked on Trembley, Blais and Bessette.

Courses Taught: Absurd Theatre (Humanities) Studies in 20th-Century Literature