Instructor II
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
Krysteena Gadzala
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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
- Gadzala, Krysteena. “Rituals and Photographic Performances of Liminality in Jérôme Ferrari’s À son image”. Chinook. ("Transitions and Transformations"). Forthcoming 2024
- Gadzala, Krysteena. « Le deuil et la divinisation par le dispositif rituel chez Philippe Forest ». Études francophones. (« Déclin, deuil et nostalgie ») 30: 197-212.