French Studies

Anne M. Rusnak

Recipient of the Clifford J. Robson Award for Excellence in Teaching (1986); "Popular Prof" in Macleans Guide to Canadian Universities (1996); Co-recipient of the Frances E. Russell Award for Research in Canadian Children's Literature (1999); SSHRCC Grant Recipient for a collaborative project in Canadian Children's Literature (2002-2005);  Runner-up: The Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement, Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), 2006 Awards Competition.

Anne M. RUSNAK visits the National Library of Canada in Ottawa, the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec in Montreal as well as the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris to analyse the narrative patterns of francophone adolescent and children's novels published in Canada and in France. You can find out more about what she has discovered about the politics of francophone Canadian children's literature in FREN-2681/3 Children's Literature of French Canada.

Teaching Areas:

• Francophone Children's and Adolescent Literature
• French Grammar

Contact Information:

phone: 204.786.9452
fax: 204.774.4134
office: 3C32
email: a.rusnak@uwinnipeg.ca  

Selected Publications:

• "Le home: un espace privilégié en littérature de jeunesse québécoise." Home Words; Discourses of Children's Literature in Canada. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press, 2008. 51-66.
• "Children's Literature in French."  The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada.  W.H. New, editor.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.  201-203.