Erin Ponnou-Delaffon

- About
- Education
- Research
Current Courses
112.001First-Year French (Part II)
112.002First-Year French (Part II)
300.001Research In French
386.001Topics In French And Francophone Cinema
Teaching Interests & Areas
French-language literatures, particularly modern and contemporary; French cinema; ethics and existentialism; contemporary France
Research Interests & Areas
20th- and 21st-century French-language literature; French film; religion, secularism, and narrative; ethics; existentialism; World War II, the Occupation, and the Holocaust; contemporary French society and culture
Ph D French
M Phil Medieval Studies
MA French & Francophone Studies
BA French & Francophone Studies
Book Review
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Jacques Audiard, by Gemma King (Manchester UP, French Film Directors Series, 2021). Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 38, no. 1, 2023, pp. 228-31.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Landscapes of Resilience in the Works of Miriam Toews, by Sabrina Reed (U of Manitoba P, 2022). Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol. 41, no. 1, 2023, pp. 233-35.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Reframing Remembrance: Contemporary French Cinema and the Second World War, by Lisa Harper Campbell (Manchester UP, 2022). Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 37, no. 2, 2022, pp. 217-21.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of La France: histoire, société, culture, by Edward Ousselin (Canadian Scholars, 2018). French Studies, vol. 73, no. 4, 2019, pp. 655-56.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of L’instruction en famille : une liberté qui inquiète, by Michèle Guigue and Rébecca Sirmons (L’Harmattan, 2015). International Education Review, vol. 63, no. 5, 2017, pp. 779-81.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Values of Literature, edited by Hanna Meretoja, Saija Isomaa, Pirjo Lyytikäinen, and Kristina Malmio (Brill Rodopi, 2015). French Studies, vol. 71, no. 1, 2017, pp. 159-60.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought, by Damian Catani (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). French Forum, vol. 40, no. 1, 2015, pp. 157-59.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Cinema for French Conversation: Le cinéma en cours de français, 4th ed., by Anne-Christine Rice (Focus, 2013). French Review, vol. 88, no. 1, 2014, pp. 200-01.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Sylvie Germain: les essais – un espace transgénérique, edited by Mariska Koopman-Thurlings (Rodopi, 2011). French Review, vol. 87, no. 1, 2013, pp. 228-29.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. Review of Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature, edited by Scott M. Powers (Cambridge Scholars, 2011). Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 98, 2012, pp. 160-61.
Book, Chapter
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “‘Le récit d’une libération’: Religion et violence dans l’écriture de Salim Bachi.” Salim Bachi, edited by Agnès Schaffauser, L’Harmattan, 2019, pp. 203-16.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Encountering Others: Reading, Writing, Teaching, Parenting.” [A reading of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Marc-Alain Ouaknin.] Teacher, Scholar, Mother: Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy, edited by Anna M. Young, Lexington, 2015, pp. 49-59.
Encyclopedia
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Sylvie Germain.” The Literary Encyclopedia. April 2011. www.litencyc.com
Journal Article
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Reading Toews Reading Camus: Existentialist Echoes in Miriam Toews’s ‘Secular Mennonite’ Ethics and Aesthetics.” Mennonite Quarterly Review, vol. 97, no. 2, 2023, pp. 161-82.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Into Great Silence: Pierre Péju’s La Petite Chartreuse, a Contemporary Tale of Secular Pilgrimage.” Orbis Litterarum, vol. 77, no. 5, 2022, pp. 285-98.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. "Camus Facing the Problem of Evil, 'partagé entre la douleur et la beauté.'" Études Francophones, vol. 34, Spring 2022, pp. 1-18.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Lorsque rentrer à l’école, c’est rester à la maison: Homeschooling in France as a Contemporary Critique of Social Institutions.” Contemporary French Civilization, vol. 45, no. 2, 2020, pp. 189-210.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Rereading Elsa Triolet’s Roses à crédit as a Fairy Tale for Tough Financial Times.” Women in French Studies, vol. 25, 2017, pp. 149-59.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. "Sylvie Germain's Essayistic Spirit." Women in French Studies, 2017, Special Issue, pp. 104-14.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “In and Out of Place: Geographies of Revolt in Camus’s La Peste.” Studies in Twentieth & Twenty-First Century Literature, vol. 39, no. 1, 2015, http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 356, Gale, 2018, pp. 285-92.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Filming the Silent (Br)Other: Levinasian Ethics and Aesthetic Faith in Patrick Drevet’s Les Gardiens des pierres and Philip Gröning’s Die Große Stille [Into Great Silence].” The Modern Language Review, vol. 109, no. 3, 2014, pp. 617-28.
Ponnou-Delaffon, Erin Tremblay. “Histoire de souffrances: Ethics of Remembering and Listening in Sylvie Germain’s La Pleurante des rues de Prague.” The French Review, vol. 87, no. 1, 2013, pp. 153-64.