Faculty
Daniel Vaillancourt
Doctoral Membership
Department of French
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Education: MA, PhD, Université du Québec á Montréal
Research Interests
Theories of reading, mystical writings, travel narratives, birth of urbanism and urbanity in 17th century France, philosophy and aesthetics of Deleuze, semiotics.
Books: co-author, Le Roi dans la ville; Anthologie des entrées royales [The King in the City, Anthology of Relations of Royal Entrées (1615-1660)] (Paris, 2001); guest editor of journal: (in coll. With M.F. Wagner) "Les entrées royales: urbanité et société au XVIIe siècle"[Royal Entries: urbanirty and society in Eaqrly Modern France], XVIIe siècle, Vol.53 , No 3, Aut. 2001 ; (in coll with M. Randall) "Généalogie de de la figure du Patriote, 1837-1838" [Genealogy of the figura of the Patrriot; 1837-1838], Voix et Images, No 78, Printemps 2001 ; (in coll. With C. Lavoie) "Sport et Sémiotique" [Sports and Semiotics], Recherches sémiotiques|Semiotic Inquiries, Vol 22, Nos 1-2-3, 2002 in progress, L'Invention d'une capitale: urbanite parisienne et société au XVIIe siècle [The Invention of a Capital: Parisian urbanity an society in Early Modern France]; as an editor, La cérémonie: entre le protocolaire et lIntime.
Theses Supervised:
- Stephen Gray: Austerity in America, PhD thesis, 2011
- Jakub Zdebik: The Extraordinary Contraction, PhD thesis, 2007
- Timothy De Vries: Passage Atlas: Benjamin and the Arcades, MA thesis, 2004
- Darryl Biedron: Towards a Theory of Tectonic Morphogenesis, MA thesis, 2003
- Christopher Bradd: On the Fields of Emergence: Towards a Politics of Time, MA thesis, 2001
- Keith Bresnahan: Nothing, Really: Absence, Negativity, and the Last Word (On Theological Remainders in Post-Heideggerian Thought), MA thesis, 2000
