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Gaëtan Brulotte studied at Laval University (Quebec City), and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Paris VII -Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (France), while working with the renowned French critic, Roland Barthes who directed his dissertation on French Erotic Literature. He is currently Distinguished University Professor of French & Francophone Literature at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he has been teaching since 1984. He also taught French & Francophone Literature at numerous universities in the United States, Canada and France, including the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of New Mexico, the University of Québec at Trois-Rivières, the Stendhal University (Grenoble III) in France and the Sorbonne (Paris V). He has authored a dozen of books so far. As an award-winning Francophone creative writer, he published a novel L'Emprise (translated as Double Exposure) and four collections of short stories Le Surveillant (translated as The Secret Voice), Ce qui nous tient (What Holds Us), Epreuves (To the Test), La Vie de biais (Life Sideways) and a play Le Client (The Violins), which was premiered at the Avignon Drama Festival in France in 2001 and restaged afterwards. His fiction works won over fifteen literary awards. Some were also adapted for cinema, television, stage and radio. His works are translated as well into several languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, German, Serbian, Rumanian, and Hungarian as well as featured in some 30 anthologies and textbooks (including in Writing from Canada at Cambridge University Press, England). Some were published in magazines in different areas of the world, including Cleo in Australia, Les Cahiers du Ru in Italy, Brèves in France, Puerto del Sol in the USA, Steaua in Rumania, Châtelaine in Canada, Knjizevne Novine in Serbia, Magyar Naplozi in Hungary. He has given so far around 200 interviews on television, radio, in periodicals or for scholarly books concerning his works. As a scholar, he published extensively on censored or marginalized literary genres (such as the Fantastic, the Erotic, the short story), and on 20th Century French and Francophone Literature. His critical studies have appeared as chapters of some 40 books and in countless international refereed journals such as Paragraph (England), L'Arc, Poétique, Revue des Sciences Humaines, Revue d'esthétique (France), Etudes Littéraires, Liberté, XYZ, Les Ecrits, The University of Toronto Quarterly (Canada), The Comparatist, Etudes francophones, The French Review, Sites (USA). He has published some 80 articles in periodicals and over 150 book reviews. Besides his critically acclaimed Oeuvres de chair. Figures du discours érotique (1998) his scholarly books include a collection of critical essays on contemporary French literature Les Cahiers de Limentinus. Lectures fin de siècle, published in 1998, a cultural study on a major Canadian painter, L'Univers de Jean Paul Lemieux published in 1996 with a foreword by internationally renowned writer Anne Hébert, and a meditation on the functions of literature and creative writing, La Chambre des lucidités in 2003. He co-edited with a British colleague (John Phillips) a 2-volume Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature which was published in 2006 by Routledge (New York & Oxford) and which involved some 400 contributors from different parts of the world. His work is attracting more and more critical attention, over one hundred items reported up to now (book reviews, articles, theses), and is subject of courses at a number of colleges and universities world-wide, as well as of communications and sessions at conferences. These critical activities around his works include a monograph entitled Gaëtan Brulotte: Une Nouvelle Ecriture edited by Claudine Fisher (NY: Mellen, 1992), a collection of critical essays by seventeen scholars, a book that won in Strasbourg (France) the 1992 International Prize for Francophone Studies. He made the cover of the 2004-2005 winter issue of the Canadian literary magazine Lettres québécoises. Gaetan Brulotte is a member of many professional associations, including the International PEN Club, the UNEQ (Union des Ecrivains québécois, Montreal), the ADELF (Association des Ecrivains de langue française, Paris), the SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, France), the EAT (Ecrivains Associés du Théâtre, Paris), and served on the board of writers' societies (including the presidency of a French Canadian Writers' Society). He is figured in many national and international Who's Who publications. In 1998, for his artistic and scholarly achievements, Gaëtan Brulotte was elected in the USA «Artist-Scholar of the Year» by the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, and in 1999 he was the recipient at the University of South Florida of the «Theodore & Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award». In 2003, also at the University of South Florida he received the Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence, in 2004 the Outstanding Research Achievement Award, and in 2005 the honorific title of Distinguished University Professor, the highest title of this university. To know more please visit these web sites: II. GAETAN BRULOTTE: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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