Denis Provencher, associate professor of Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, has been awarded a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship to the European Union. This is a $180,000 fellowship from the European Commission’s CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service).
For a one-year period beginning in September 2012, Provencher will lead a research group of scholars in French studies, cultural studies and linguistics at Nottingham Trent University (UK) while also pursuing research on his second scholarly monograph, currently titled “Queer-Arab-France: Sexuality, Islam and Citizenship in France.”
