Isabelle Delage-Béland is Assistant Professor of Teaching (French) since July 2023. Before joining UBC in 2020, she has taught several language, grammar, literature, and writing courses in Quebec (at Université de Montréal and Université Laval) and in Ontario (at Brock University). Isabelle holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from Université de Montréal (SSHRC, 2012-2015). From 2018 to 2020, she conducted a postdoctoral research project at Université Laval (FRQSC, 2018-2020). Her research focuses primarily on poetics and history of brief narratives during the Middle Ages (13^th-15^th century). Entitled Les Fabliaux. Fiction, vraisemblance et genre littéraire, her first monograph was published in 2024 by Éditions Classiques Garnier.

In the Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, she teaches French at various levels. As coordinator of FREN 401 & FREN 402 (Upper-Intermediate French I & II), she enhances connections between language and literature courses, develops materials for French immersion students, and involves students in the creation of experiential learning activities. She is currently leading the Small TLEF project “Modernizing Traditional French Grammar Courses: Towards an Active, Descriptive, and Inclusive Approach for Advanced Students” which aims to redesign FREN 352 and FREN 353 and create original open access materials to better support learners and peers. She also participates in the Large TLEF project “Changing Course: Hybrid Opportunities for Students in French, Hispanic, and Italian Language Programs” led by Luisa Canuto. Furthermore, Isabelle is the Faculty Coordinator of TA Training and Mentoring in FHIS.

Interests

• French language acquisition
• Grammar teaching and learning
• Inclusive pedagogy
• Inclusive French
• History of the French language
• French medieval literature
• Short texts (fabliau, lai, dit, nouvelle)
• Theories of fiction

Current research projects

Modernizing Traditional French Grammar Courses : Towards an Active, Descriptive, and Inclusive Approach for Advanced Students. With Anne Salamon. (UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund – Small TLEF, 2024-2025)

Book

Les Fabliaux. Fiction, vraisemblance et genre littéraire (Paris: Classiques Garnier, “Recherches littéraires médiévales”, 2024).

Edited book

Co-editor with Anne Salamon of Le Dit du berceau au tombeau (XIII^e-XV^e siècle) (Paris: Classiques Garnier, “Rencontres, Civilisation médiévale”, 2022).

Journal issue

Co-editor with Ariane Bottex-Ferragne of [Ré]écrire l’histoire. Actes du III^e Colloque de l’ADELFIES. Département de langue et littérature françaises, Littératures, 27 (Montreal, McGill University, 2012).

Articles and book chapters

“Introduction. Le dit, une énigme de la littérature médiévale et ses solutions”, in Isabelle Delage-Béland and Anne Salamon (eds.), Le Dit du berceau au tombeau (XIII^e-XV^e siècle) (Paris: Classiques Garnier, “Rencontres, Civilisation médiévale”, 2022), pp. 7-22.

“L’histoire d’un récit inséré. Dispositio et narratio dans Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelonne, du XV^e au XVIII^e siècle”, in Pascale Mounier (ed.), Sur la narration. Dispositifs rhétoriques dans la narration d’un personnage (XV^e-XVIII^e siècles), Exercices de rhétorique, 18, 2022. https://journals.openedition.org/rhetorique/1296

“En marge de l’histoire : les fictions médiévales et Gérard Genette”, in Isabelle Arseneau, Patrick Moran, Véronique Dominguez, and Sébastien Douchet (eds.), Les études médiévales face à Gérard Genette, Perspectives Médiévales. Revue d’épistémologie des langues et littératures du Moyen Âge, 2, 2021. https://journals.openedition.org/peme/36603

“Des bibliothèques personnelles. Copie, compilation et matière du livre anglo-normand : l’exemple des manuscrits de Londres, British Library, Harley 2253 et Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86”, in Gabriele Giannini and Francis Gingras (eds.), with the collaboration of Gaëlle Morend Jaquet, Les Centres de production des manuscrits vernaculaires au Moyen Âge (Paris: Classiques Garnier, “Rencontres, Civilisation médiévale”, 2015), pp. 37-58.

“Une conquête problématique. Le statut ambigu de la fiction dans le manuscrit Paris, BNF, fr. 375, un recueil de romans”, Études françaises, 48/3 (2012), pp. 95-113.

“Incipit et mise en recueil: lire en contexte Le Chevalier aux deux épées, texte initial du manuscrit Paris, BnF fr. 12603,” Memini. Travaux et documents, 14 (2010), pp. 7-24. https://journals.openedition.org/memini/307