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 (B.Ed.) 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 (SSHRC).
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.
Dolbec’s research meticulously 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 Éditions Nota bene, a highly reputable Canadian publisher in Montréal. She has also published extensively in refereed scholarly journals and has delivered several papers both at international and national academic conferences.
Selected Refereed Publications
Book Authored
Dolbec, Nathalie. Les Rouages du descriptif chez Gabrielle Roy. Éditions Nota bene, 2017. (198 p.).
Articles
Dolbec, Nathalie. "Description de la résistance, résistance par la description dans Eva et Ruda: récit à deux voix de survivants de l'Holocauste d'Eva et Rudolph Roden." Special Issue on Canadian Holocaust Literature/Numéro spécial en Littérature canadienne sur l’Holocauste, Canadian Jewish Studies/Études juives canadiennes, vol. 32, 2021, pp. 53-69.
Dolbec, Nathalie. "Chant de résistance: un regard hors norme sur la Shoah dans Eva et Ruda d'E. et R. Roden." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 41, no. 2, 2016, pp. 99-116.
Dolbec, Nathalie. "Les contours du descriptif dans Volkswagen Blues de Jacques Poulin." Canadian Literature/Littérature canadienne, vol. 216, 2013, p. 85-99.
Dolbec, Nathalie. "Le métatexte du descriptif dans l'œuvre de Gabrielle Roy." Studies in Canadian Literature /Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 37, no. 1, 2012, pp. 31-46.
Dolbec, Nathalie. "Les descriptions de villages dans l'œuvre de Gabrielle Roy." Francophonies d'Amérique, vol. 29, 2011, pp. 11-34.
Dolbec, Nathalie. "Lisibilité du descriptif dans le roman d'aventures canadien-français: l'exemple de L'enfant mystérieux (1890) de Wenceslas-Eugène Dick." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne, vol. 33, no. 1, 2008, pp. 26-48.
Dolbec, Nathalie. "Le discours conservationniste dans Salazie ou le Piton d'Anchaine d'Auguste Vinson fils: le cas de la description." Nouvelles études francophones, vol. 20, no. 1, 2005, pp. 111-27.
Dolbec, Nathalie. "D'un tableau l'autre: le parcours de l'ekphrasis dans Volkswagen Blues de Jacques Poulin." Canadian Literature/Littérature canadienne, vol. 184, 2005, pp. 27-43.
Conference Proceedings
Dolbec, Nathalie. "La théorie du descriptif et ses applications à l'analyse du théâtre: l'exemple du Chien de Jean Marc Dalpé." Jean Marc Dalpé: ouvrier d'un dire. Actes du colloque international sur l'œuvre, dramaturge et romancier franco-ontarien Jean Marc Dalpé, Stéphanie Nutting et François Paré (dir.), Éditions Prise de parole, 2007, pp. 79-96.