Dr. Denis Provencher is a Professor of French and Francophone studies in the Department of French and Italian and is affiliate faculty in Anthropology, Gender and Women's Studies, LGBT Studies, Linguistics, and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching.  His publications include over 30 essays and two books: Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France (2007) and Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations (2017). He also recently co-edited the volume Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations: Non-Places, Affect, Temporalities (2021).