- English-Canadian Literature (novel, short story, essay, poetry, film adaptations)
Elspeth Tulloch
Professeure agrégée
Département de littérature, théâtre et cinéma
Directrice des programmes de deuxième et troisième cycles en littératures d'expression anglaise
Membre du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la littérature et la culture québécoises (CRILCQ)
Dr. Tulloch’s research interests are two-fold: the relationship between literature and environmental concerns and the relationship between literature and film. Her current ecocritical interests focus on narratives of ecological disruption, biodiversity loss, or extinction, and memoirs bearing witness to these issues. In light of the planetary nature of these problems, this research has been leading to comparative work between Canadian and other national literatures to provide wider context. Her research has also examined the politics of cinematic adaptation, with a focus on adaptations of Canadian literature by a major cultural institution, the National Film Board of Canada. This research involved the study of English and French language adaptations of Canadian literature. Drawing on theories of adaptation, this research was concerned with issues of representation as well as the intersection of literature with both historical narrative and socio-cultural policy.
Enseignement
Projets de recherche
«L’adaptation cinématographique dans une institution culturelle: Étude comparative des adaptations cinématographiques réalisées en anglais et en français par l’Office national du film du Canada et de leurs sources littéraires (1950 à 1990).» FQRSC, 2008-2012.
Publications
Guest Editor
Le cinéma québécois et les autres arts. Special Issue of Nouvelles vues sur le cinéma québécois: Revue sur les pratiques et théories du cinéma au Québec. 13. Winter/Spring 2012. Including the introduction: «Fertile Contacts: Québec Cinema and the Other Arts.»
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
«Whose Arctic? Who Cares? Place, Responsibility, and Elegiac Purpose in the Eskimo Curlew Extinction Narrative.» Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory. Ed. Sarah Jaquette Ray and Kevin Maier. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2017: p. 15-51.
«L’adaptation au cinéma: quelques notions de base tirées des études en adaptation cinématographique.» Adaptation dans les espaces francophones: Formes, expressions et diffusion. Dir.: Aline Francoeur. Collection «Culture française d’Amérique.» Presses de l’Université Laval, 2015: p. 71-100.
«Adapting Men to New Times? Engagements with Masculinism in John Howe’s Why Rock the Boat?» Double-Takes Intersections between Canadian Literature and Film. Ed. David Jarraway. Ottawa: University of Ottawa. 2013: p. 277-297.
«Mapping Out the Cultural Presence of Francophones in the West via the Re-visioning of Louis Riel and Gabrielle Roy in NFB Film Adaptations.» Place and Replace: New Directions in Western Canadian Studies. Ed. Adele Perry, Leah Morton and Esyllt Jones. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press. 2013: p. 227-249.
«Husbandry, Agriculture, and Ecocide: Reading Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather as a Postcolonial Georgic.» Special Issue: Dislocation and Ecologies. European Journal of English Studies. Ed. Alexa Weik von Mossner and Christoph Irmscher 16.2 (2012): p. 137-150.
Articles for a General Audience (Cultural Outreach)
«1919. Sister Woman: Brise les tabous». De la Belle Époque à la Crise: Chroniques de la vie culturelle à Montréal. Dirs.: Marie-Josée des Rivières et Denis Saint-Jacques. Québec, Éd. Nota bene, 2015, p. 233-243.
Intérêts de recherche
- English and French language literature and film adaptations of Canada
- Littérature comparée/Comparative literature
- Narratives of ecological disruption, biodiversity loss, and extinction
- English Literature