Queer Studies in Quebec Research Group (ÉRÉQQ)

The Équipe de recherche en études Queer au Québec (Queer Studies in Quebec research group) is composed of six members of the Universities of Sherbrooke and Montreal and three collaborators. It is concerned by the literary, media, and cinematographic representations of queer bodies in Canada and Quebec produced in French and English.

Program

The objective of the ÉRÉQQ’s program is to provide the necessary institutional support for collaborative interdisciplinary and intermedial research projects for the six regular members in Quebec and the three collaborators across the country doing research in queer studies in French and English in the fields of literary studies, translation, film, and visual arts. The group aims to facilitate the sharing of theoretical and methodological tools for research on queer corporalities and identities, and assure the national and international dissemination of its members’ research. The ÉRÉQQ examines corporality in existing research in queer, gender, and sexuality studies in Quebec and Canada, and advances the theorization of the body, spatiality, and temporality from an intersectional and intermedial point of view.

Objectives of the ÉRÉQQ

PROMOTE RESEARCH AND EXCHANGES ON QUEER STUDIES IN QUEBEC AND CANADA

PROMOTE THE DISSEMINATION, CIRCULATION, AND PUBLICATION OF RESEARCH ON QUEER STUDIES

MENTOR AND SUPPORT GRADUATE RESEARCHERS WORKING ON QUEER STUDIES IN QUEBEC AND ACROSS CANADA.

Research Activities

Annual Symposium

The group holds two annual symposia. For 2020, the first will take place at Simon Fraser University in collaboration with the VersUS Research Centre, and the second at the Université de Montréal.

Associate Members

Associate members are invited to present the results of their research at the group’s research workshops, annual colloquiums, and in future publications.

Student Support

Student researchers associated with the group participate in the group’s activities and benefit from the mentorship of the members. The team offers graduate students contracts as research assistants to ensure the organization and coordination of research events and activities.

Research Workshops

The group holds 2 research workshops each year with the participation of regular members, collaborators, graduate students, and visiting researchers. There is a mentoring component to these workshops that gives graduate students the opportunity to present their work to the group.