Queen’s National Scholar
Joint-Appointed with French Studies

Research interests: Comparative Indigenous literary criticism; francophone Indigenous literatures and migrant literatures, Indigenous filmmaking and collaborative research methodologies, theories of events and Indigenous-settler relationships  

Education

Ph. D. in Literary Studies, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
M. A. in Humanities, Concordia University
B. A. in Translation, Concordia University

About

Professor St-Amand is a settler scholar whose research focuses on Indigenous literary theories in Québec and Canada, collaborative research and Indigenous filmmaking in the Americas, and theories of events and Indigenous-settler relationships. Her research has been supported by scholarships, fellowships, internal and external funding, as well as by various academic and community collaborations.

Dr. St-Amand received her PhD in 2012 from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and was awarded a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship to pursue her research at the Department of Native Studies at University of Manitoba. In 2014 and 2015, she led a SSHRC-funded project to organize and reflect on “Revisioning the Americas through Indigenous Cinema”, the 5^th of an ongoing series of international trilingual conferences held in Montreal and Kahnawake as part of the First People’s Film Festival.  In that line of work, she is currently investigating the oral dimension of knowledges on Indigenous literatures and filmmaking by looking at various Indigenous-led events that gather scholars, writers, filmmakers, and community members.

Professor St-Amand has published with leading scholars in migrant literatures and Indigenous literatures. She recently co-edited a special journal issue examining environmental ethics and activism in Indigenous literature and film. Her book Stories of Oka: Land, Film and Literature https://uofmpress.ca/books/detail/stories-of-oka was published at University of Manitoba Press in the Spring 2018. It analyzes this political crisis during the standoff, in documentary films and in literary narratives, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, in Canada and Québec. The review of the book was published in the Eastern Door Journal in Kahnawake: https://www.easterndoor.com/2018/05/29/new-book-explores-bias-and-accounts-of-1990/

Professor St-Amand’s teaching philosophy is grounded in her experience of community-based research. She strives to foster experiential learning and co-founded in 2013 at Université de Montréal a CÉRIUM’s graduate summer institute on Indigenous literatures and film, for which she was co-responsible in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. 

Teaching

Professor St-Amand is teaching the following course(s):

LLCU 270: Contemporary Events and Indigenous Cultural Politics 
LLCU 295: Special Topics: Contemporary Events and Indigenous Cultural Politics
LLCU 302: Unsettling: Indigenous Peoples & Canadian Settler Colonialism
LLCU 370: Indigenous Women and Power 

Research interests: Linguistic anthropology, language revitalization, Indigenous languages

Education

Ph. D. Anthropology, University of Western Ontario 2013
M. A. Globalization Studies, McMaster 2009
M. Sc. Linguistics, University of Alberta 2004
B. A. Linguistics and Comparative Literature, McMaster 2002

About

Sarah Shulist is a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on the social and political dimensions of Indigenous language revitalization. She uses collaborative ethnographic methods in order to provide support to communities engaged in revitalization efforts, particularly in contexts of multilingualism and urbanization, as well as to understand the implications of language policy and school-based language programs in shaping Indigenous-state relations. Her research has addressed Indigenous language issues in both Brazil and Canada.

Important publications:

2018. Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2019. Shulist, Sarah and Faun Rice. Towards an Interdisciplinary Bridge between Documentation and Revitalization: Bringing Ethnographic Methods into Endangered Language Projects and Programming. Language Documentation and Conservation, 13:36-62.
2018. “Signs of Status: Language Policy, Revitalization, and Visibility in Urban Amazonia”. Language Policy, 17(4):523-543.
2016. “ ‘Indigenous Names’, Revitalization Politics, and Regimes of Recognition in the Northwest Amazon. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 21 (2):1-19
2016. “ ‘Graduated Authenticity’: Multilingualism, Revitalization, and Identity in the Northwest Amazon”. Language & Communication 47:112-123.
2013. “Collaborating on Language: Contrasting the Theory and Practice of Collaboration in Linguistics and Anthropology”. Collaborative Anthropologies, 6: 1-29.

Teaching

Prof. Shulist teaches following courses:

LING 205 Language and Power
LLCU 111 Introduction to Cultures
LLCU 110 Linguistic Diversity and Identity
LLCU 203 Sociocultural Anthropology
LING 370 Living Languages: Resilience and Revitalization in Practice
LING 490 Special Topics

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* on leave January 01 - June 31, 2025
Associated with Cultural Studies

Research interest: 20th-century Italian theatre and literature, literary studies, semiotics

Education

Ph.D. in Italian Studies, University of Toronto
“Laurea” in Lettere e filosofia, University of Rome La Sapienza

About

Donato Santeramo earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Rome, “La Sapienza” and his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. He is the Head of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Queen’s University and is cross appointed to the School of Drama and Music.  He is also associated with the Cultural Studies Graduate Program and holds an appointment at the Graduate School of the University of Rome II. He taught, from 2000 to 2013, at Middlebury College’s Summer School and at the Centre for the Study of Diaspora at the University of Calabria. He has published on Italian literature, theatre, film and Semiotics. His most recent publications are: M. Bertone, A. Nicaso and D. Santeramo, eds., Cahiers de narratologie, 36/2019 : Rhétorique et représentations de la culture mafieuse. Images, rituels, mythes et symboles, 2019; M. Gieri and D. Santeramo eds., XX-Century Italian Filmmakers, Universitalia 2019, 2 vols.); Il laboratorio teatrale pubblico di Edward Gordon Craig, (Sinestesie, 2018); Gavrilovich D., Pizza M. & Santeramo D. eds., Franca Rame: Una vita mille avventure, One Life: A Thousand Adventures, (Universitalia, 2017) and Capozzi, R, Nardi,F. Pietropaolo D. & Santeramo, D., Twentieth-Century Italian Playwrights, (Universitalia, 2016. 2 vols.). 

He has also translated and staged works of contemporary Italian playwrights and is on the Editorial Boards of several academic journals. He has also participated in several creative and artistic endeavors including the art exhibit Chromosomes (Rome 2008 and Lisbon 2009) and co-edited the book Red Cars – An Original Screenplay by David Cronenberg. In 2004 he was the recipient of the Queen’s Alumnae Teaching Award.

Teaching

Prof. Santeramo teaches the following courses:

LLCU 200: Semiotics
LLCU 214: Mafia Culture
LLCU 215: Dante
LLCU 257: Pirandello's Theatre 
LLCU 395: The Semiotics of the Arts

Research interests: Creative Writing; Indigenous Literature and Cultural Studies; Canadian Literature

Education

M. A. in literature and creative writing, University of Windsor
B. A.H. in English, University of Ottawa

About

Armand Garnet Ruffo was born in Chapleau in remote northern Ontario and is a member of the Chapleau Fox Lake Cree First Nation with familial roots to the Sagamok Ojibwe First Nation.  A Professor in the Department of English and cross-appointed with the Department of Languages, Literatures and Culture, he is recognized as a major contributor to both contemporary Indigenous literature and Indigenous literary scholarship in Canada. Professor Ruffo’s scholarly and creative practice intersect to shed light on a wide range of contemporary topics, including Indigenous culture, aesthetics, representation, incarceration, and sovereignty.

A highly regarded author, Professor Ruffo has spoken and read from his work both nationally and internationally. His publications include Opening In The Sky, Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney, The Thunderbird Poems and Treaty #, a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award. His creative biography of the renowned Anishinaabe-Ojibwe painter Norval Morrisseau (Man Changing Into Thunderbird) was received with acclaim and was also a finalist for a Governor General’s Award.  Other work includes writing the libretto for the musical Sounding Thunder: the Song of Francis Pegahmagabow; the script for On The Day The World Begins Again – a short film about Indigenous incarceration; and coediting An Anthology of Indigenous Literatures in English for OUP.

In 2020, Professor Ruffo was awarded the Latner Canada Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, given for a body of work. Other awards include The Mayor’s Arts “Creator” Award from the City of Kingston, The Archibald Lampman (Poetry) Award, and Best Film Award at the 35th annual American Indian Film Festival in the USA.  Professor Ruffo spends as much time as he can in northern Ontario where family members reside on the Fox Lake Reserve and where his son attends an “Indigenous cultural camp.”

Research interests: Language teaching, cultural studies, gender studies, history of Spain; literature of the Spanish Golden Age; Peninsular Literature, Translation.

Education

Ph. D. in Cultural Studies, Queen’s University, 2015
M. A. in Spanish Language and Literature, University of Western, 1984
B. A. in French, Spanish, English, York University (Glendon College), 1981

About

Professor Rotermundt-de la Parra has been teaching all levels of Spanish at Queen’s since 1989. In her teaching, she fosters student learning through offering guidance and positive support. In addition to the goal of helping her students to communicate effectively in Spanish, she aims at exposing them to the richness and diversity of cultures in the Spanish-speaking world.

Her current research project centers on a Jungian analysis of Cervantes’ last novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda. She is also working on an advanced grammar-through-translation textbook.

Teaching

Professor Rotermundt-de la Parra teaches the following courses:

SPAN 301: Gramática avanzada y composición I
SPAN 401: Advanced Grammar Through Translation I
SPAN 111: Beginning Spanish I
SPAN 112: Beginning Spanish II

* on leave July 01, 2023 - June 31, 2024

Queen’s National Scholar

Research interests: Syntax, syntax-semantics, morpho-syntax, field methods; Algonquian, Scandinavian, Bantu

Education

Ph.D.  in Linguistics, University of Southern California, 1999.
B.A. (Joint Honours) in Swahili and Linguistics, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, 1985

About

As a graduate student at University of Southern California, Professor Reinholtz worked primarily on Danish, her mother tongue, and the larger group of Mainland Scandinavian languages. She took a special interest in Germanic ‘verb second’ which is the focus of her Doctoral Dissertation, Verb Second, Mood and Operator Licensing. She began to work on Cree when she came to Canada in 1993.

Professor Reinholtz’s primary research areas are syntax, morpho-syntax, and the syntax-semantics interface. Much of her research deals with quantifiers, the syntactic-semantic relations in which they participate, and the functional categories with which they are associated. Her current research deals with polarity items and indefinite pronouns. Other topic areas on which she has worked include hierarchical structure and so-called nonconfigurationality, discontinuous constituents, negation, question formation and clause-typing, focusing particles, and post-nominal demonstratives.

Teaching

Professor Reinholtz teaches following courses:

LING 100: Introduction to Linguistics
LING 330: Morphology
LING 340: Syntax
LING 415: Semantics
LING 475: Field Methods

Research interests: Enlightenment, Weimar Classicism, Fascism

Education

Ph. D. in German literature, University of Toronto, 1986
M. A. in German, King’s College, University of London, England, 1982
M.A. in Classics, St John’s College, Oxford, England, 1974

About

Professor Pugh teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on German language and literature and an undergraduate course on European fascism.

Professor Pugh is the author of Dialectic of Love: Platonism in Schiller's Aesthetics (Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996) and Schiller’s Early Dramas: A Critical History. Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000, as well as numerous articles on 18th century German literature, Weimar Classicism and Heinrich Heine.

Teaching

Professor Pugh teaches the following courses:
GRMN 419/LLCU 319: Roots of Fascism: Resistance to Liberalism in the 19th Century
GRMN 420/LLCU 320: Fascism in Europe: From Napoleon to Hitler
LLCU 205: Cultures of a Nation: Germany

Research and teaching interests: Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature and Music; Hispanic Avant-Garde Movements; and the Political Song in Latin America (1960-1990), particularly in Mexico.

Education

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2013
M.A., McGill University, 2009
B.A., McGill University, 2007

About          

Claudio Palomares-Salas joined the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures in 2014. He has taught Latin American and Spanish literature, culture, music, and cinema courses, as well as Spanish language and translation courses, at McGill University, the University of Toronto, Trent University and Queen’s. His research and teaching interests are Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature and Music; Hispanic Avant-Garde Movements; and the Political Song in Latin America (1960-1990), particularly in Mexico.

Books

Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance (Oxford University Press, 2025)

The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde (Brill, 2020)

All publications

Publications: Claudio Palomares-Salas

Teaching 

LLCU 248: Introduction to Latin American Cultures
LLCU 205: Investigating Nations (Mexico)
LLCU 244: Hips don’t Lie? Music and Culture in Latin America
LLCU 249: Latin Lovers: Love, Sex and Popular Culture
LLCU 311: Hispanic, Latino, Latinx? Hispanic Cultures in the US and Canada
LLCU 395: Modern Latin American Fiction

Please contact Prof. Palomares-Salas for any inquiries about our Latin American Studies minor.

Research interests: Modern German and comparative literary studies, European literary relations, Translation studies, Narrative and narratology

Education

Doctor of Literature, Ireland, 1994
Ph. D. in German Language and Literature, Queen's University, 1972
M.A., Ireland, 1968

About

Professor O'Neill is author of numerous journal articles and book chapters on German, English, and comparative literature and on aspects of narrative theory and translation studies. His books include:

• Günter Grass: A Bibliography, 1955-1975 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976)
• German Literature in English Translation: A Select Bibliography (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981)
• Ireland and Germany: A Study in Literary Relations (New York: Peter Lang, 1985)
• Critical Essays on Günter Grass, ed. (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987)
• The Comedy of Entropy: Humour, Narrative, Reading (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990)
• Fictions of Discourse: Reading Narrative Theory (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994)
• Acts of Narrative: Textual Strategies in Modern German Fiction (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996)
• Günter Grass Revisited (New York: Twayne; London: Prentice Hall, 1999)
• Polyglot Joyce: Fictions of Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005)
• Impossible Joyce: Finnegans Wakes (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013)
• Transforming Kafka: Translation Effects. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)
• Trilingual Joyce: The Anna Livia Variations (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018)
• Finnegans Wakes: Tales of Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022).
• Anna Livia Plurilingual: Exploring a Joycean Macrotext. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025. xxi + 199 pp.