Sébastien Roldan
Assistant Professor
Department:
Modern Languages and Literatures
Fields:
- Death / Dying
- History
- Language / Linguistics
- Literature / Creative Writing
- Philosophy / Ethics
- Urban Geography
- French Literature
Areas of Expertise:
- Nineteenth-Century French Literature
- Romanticism
- Realism
- Naturalism
- Symbolism
- French Studies
- French-Canadian Terroir novels
- Literary Philosophy
- Literary Geography
- Rivers in Literature
Languages Spoken:
- English
- French
- Spanish
Available To:
- Appear on radio or TV
- Write articles
- Discuss research with industry, government, and others
About:
Sébastien Roldan joined the Modern Languages and Literatures department in the Summer of 2019. His research on the great French novelists of the 19th century (Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, Maupassant, Daudet) focuses on the dialog that occurs between literature and philosophy in literary texts, be it prose, poetry, or drama. His dissertation tackled the question of suicide in the realist novel. He has studied and worked in Paris, Strasbourg and Montreal.