Dr. Nathalie Dolbec is an Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (French Studies) at the University of Windsor (Canada). She holds three degrees in French Studies from the University of Toronto (B.A., M.A., Ph.D) and a Bachelor of Education from York University. She has received several research awards amongst which The Connaught Scholarship and The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship.
Her research explores, from a narratological perspective, the functioning of descriptive discourse in the Literature of Francophone Canada and, more recently, in Migrant Writing in Francophone Canada, dealing with the Holocaust. Dolbec is the author of the book Les Rouages du descriptif chez Gabrielle Roy published in 2017 by the Éditions Nota bene in Montréal. She has also published extensively in refereed scholarly journals and has delivered several papers both at international and national academic conferences.
Dolbec teaches courses in the Literature and Culture of Francophone Canada as well as French Language Training courses and Contemporary Critical Theory. In 2003, she was recognized as a finalist for the University of Windsor Student’s Alliance (UWSA) Excellence in Teaching Award. She was also the recipient in 2013 of a Faculty Award for her teaching accomplishments from the Organization of Part-time University Students (OPUS) of the University of Windsor.