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Dr. Devika Vijayan

PhD
Pronouns: She/Her

Positions

Associate Professor, French and Francophone Studies

Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures

Director, French Centre

Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures: French and Francophone Studies

Contact information

Email

dvijayan@ucalgary.ca

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-2942

Location

Office: CHC308

Background

Educational Background

PhD , University of Waterloo, 2013

M.Phil. , University of Delhi, 1995

M.A. , University of Delhi, 1993

B.A. , University of Madras, 1991

Research

Areas of Research

Travel Literature of 17th and 18th centuries, Jesuit writings on India and Canada, Quebec literature.

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
FREN 225 La Grammaire par les textes I
FREN 227 La Grammaire par les textes II
FREN 291 Introduction to Francophone literature and culture
FREN 399 French literature during Renaissance
FREN 411 French literature of seventeenth century
FREN 501/605 Seminar course on Literary Theory
FREN 511/635 Seminar course on French Travel literature of seventeenth century

Awards

  • Great Supervisor Award, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Calgary. 2020

Publications

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  • “L’orientalisme des Jésuites français: le cas de Jean-Venant Bouchet” Société Canadienne d’études de la Renaissance, McGill University, Montreal Canada, June 15, 2024.
  • “Indian Gods in the Travel Narratives of Jean de Léry and Jean-Venant Bouchet” Renaissance Society of America, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, USA, March 24, 2024.
  • “Roberto de Nobili et la Philosophie de l’Accomodation des Jésuites”, Société Canadienne d’Études de la Renaissance, York University, Canada, May 27, 2023.
  • “Les Curiosités religieuses de Pierre Du Jarric: Une vision alternative des Indes orientales au XVIIe siècle” Colloque International d’Études Francophones, Timisoara, Romania, March 18, 2023.
  • India in Jesuit writings: Looking through verbal and visual illustrations at the Renaissance Society of America Virtual Meeting, December 2, 2022.
  • Les Curiosités religieuses de Père Pierre Du Jarric at the International Conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth Century Studies, Reykjavik, October 15, 2022. (Unable to participate due to delay in processing visa for Iceland).
  • Le scribe et ses masques : le cas de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier et Samuel Chappuzeau at Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société Canadienne d’études de la Renaissance, University of Alberta, Canada, May 30, 2021.
  • Jean de La Fontaine et François Bernier: une relation symbiotique, at NASSCFL, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA, May 29, 2021.
  • “Making Teaching Communal: Peer mentoring through Teaching Squares”, Taylor Institute Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, (Rachel Friedman, Angela George, Miao Li and Devika Vijayan), University of Calgary, Canada, May 4, 2021.
  • The subversive view of the Other: vision of religion in the Jesuits’ writings around the 18th century at Mount Royal University, Calgary, February 28, 2020.
  • Jesuit wanderings in China and India: a journey through illustrations at Mount Royal University, (co-presented with Dr. Miao Li), Calgary March 8, 2019.
  • An outsider’s perspective: China and India in “The travels of Marco Polo: Stony Brook University, (co-presented with Dr. Miao Li), Long Island, New York, October 11-13, 2018.
  • Anquetil-Duperron, un héros voyageur au XVIIIe siècle vers les Indes Orientales, Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de l’Ouest de Timişoara, Romania, June 15-16, 2018. 
  • Much Maligned Monsters of India, Medieval and Renaissance Cultural Studies Group (MARCS), University of Calgary, April 4, 2019.
  • Le Sati- discours d’une altérité religieuses barbare? at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta May 12-13, 2016.
  • Les dieux monstres de l’Inde: la négation de l’art dans le discours des voyageurs français aux Indes orientales au XVIIe siècle, at Université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre, France, January 15, 2014.
  • Du Jarric un cosmographe tardif at meeting of “Groupe de recherches sur les lettres Jésuites” at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, in October 3-5, 2013.
  • URGC SSHRC Faculty Seed Grant (2019-2021): Title: Travelers’ tales: Jesuit anecdotes on India (17th -18th centuries), Amount awarded: $ 13,960.
  • Energizing Arts Grant (2019-2021): Title: Anquetil-Duperron: Theoretician of Egalitarianism, Amount Awarded: $ 2000.
  • Vice-President Research Grant for organizing conferences (May 2018), Title of Conference: Representations of the Other, University of Calgary, Canada, Amount Awarded: $ 1500, P.I.:  Dr. Devika Vijayan, Co-Applicant:  Dr. Miao Li.
  • Faculty of Arts Scholarly Activity Grant (2018), Title of Conference: Representations of the Other, University of Calgary, Canada, Amount Awarded: $ 1000, P.I.:  Dr. Devika Vijayan, Co-Applicant: Dr. Miao Li.