• Instructor

    Faculty of Arts
    Department of French, Spanish and Italian
    424 Fletcher Argue building
    15 Chancellors Circle
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2

    Phone: 204-474-9311
    krysteena.gadzala@umanitoba.ca

    Preferred pronouns: she/her/elle

Teaching

  • FREN 1152, FREN 1154 - Introductory French 
  • FREN 1190 - Français
  • FREN 1252, 2610, 3350 - Français oral (partie I, II, III)

Biography

Krysteena is a French Instructor at the University of Manitoba. Her research focuses on death and loss in 21st-century French literature. In particular, she has studied child loss as experienced by fathers in autobiographical texts.

Education

  • PhD (French Literature), University of Waterloo, 2020
  • MA (French Literature), University of Waterloo, 2013
  • BEd (French, Junior/Intermediate), Nipissing University, 2012
  • BA (French Teaching Specialization), University of Waterloo, 2011

Research

Research interests

  • Death, loss, mourning
  • 21st-century French literature
  • Rituals
  • Material culture

Selected publications

Book chapter 

  • Gadzala, Krysteena. « Le père endeuillé au XXIe siècle : les rites au service de la quête de l’enfant défunt » dans La répétition dans les textes littéraires du Moyen Âge à nos jours. Loula Abd-elrazak et Valérie Dusaillant-Fernandes (dir.), New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2020, p. 207-223.

Articles

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