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LÉANDRE LAROUCHE CURRICULUM VITAE 400 Sentier du Hameau La Baie, Quebec Canada G7B 0C2 E-mail: http://[email protected] Tel: (438) 407-2548 EDUCATION Lycoming College Full-time student (audit), 2019-2020. Courses: United States to 1887; Advanced Language Practice (Spanish); Intermediate German I Concordia University BA (Hons), English Literature & Professional Writing, 2016-2019. The University of Nottingham Semester-long exchange, English Literature, 2018. Courses: Advanced Stylistics; 20th-Century Poetry and Politics; Victorian Literature Collège de Chicoutimi DEC, Arts, lettres et communication, 2013-2015. OTHER CERTIFICATIONS Spring International Language Center, University of Arkansas, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Summer Orientation Program, August 2019. British Council, Ideas for a Better World: Leading Change Through Policymaking (online), July 2019. AWARDS, GRANTS, & RECOGNITIONS Fulbright Scholarship (FLTA), US$13,600, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 2019-2020. Rita Seppannen Award Shortlist, Nomination for the best Professional Writing portfolio and academic excellence, 2019. Compton-Lamb Memorial Scholarship Shortlist, Nomination for the best literary essay and academic excellence in Concordia’s English Department, 2018. Québec Mobility Bursary, CAD$2500 bursary to study at The University of Nottingham provided by Québec’s Ministère de l’Éducation et de l’Enseignement supérieur (MEES), 2018. Fulbright Canada, Canadian Representative at the Youth Institute on Canada in the World, Québec City & Ottawa, Canada, 2017. Excellence Scholarship, CAD$500 for academic excellence and community involvement at Collège de Chicoutimi, provided by the department of Arts, lettres et communication, 2015. 1 Engagement Montaigne Certificate, Recognition of student involvement by the Collège de Chicoutimi, 2015. Damase-Potvin Literary Contest, Recipient of the third place for the short story “La revanche du requin en cardigan,” 2015. PUBLICATIONS Guide international des labels de commerce équitable (English to French translation). Association québécoise du commerce équitable (AQCE), 2019. https://www.commercequitable.org/wp- content/uploads/guide-label-2019-francais-web.pdf Mémoire sur le projet de loi 17 (co-author of private memorandum submitted to National Assembly of Québec), July 2019. “The Politics of Dying in Early-Modern England: Elegy, Epitaphs, and Mourning in the Poetry of Katherine Philips” (print) in LUCC 2019 Proceedings: 64-75. Plateforme Mouvement : guide d’utilisation (technical documentation). Québec Solidaire, 2018. file:///Users/Leandre/Desktop/Guide_Mouvement.pdf Hétérochrome (novel), BouquinBec, 2017. “Circumventing Consent: Richardson’s Notion of Agency Through the Mind-Body Problem in Clarissa” (print) in LUCC 2017 Proceedings: 92-100. “Mordecai’s Version: The Adaptation of Richleresque Politics in Barney’s Version” (print) in QUEUC 2017 Proceedings: 33-36. Correction du français écrit dans les travaux scolaires (student guide) in Outils d’apprentissage de la bibliothèque du Collège de Chicoutimi, 2015. https://cchic.ca/fichiers/Guide_correction_Leandre1.pdf PRESENTATIONS “Blogging to bridge the gap between cultures.” Fulbright FLTA mid-year Conference, Fulbright, Marriot Marquis, Washington, DC, December 11-15, 2019. “Government-funded Bestseller: Canadian Publishing and the Economics of Survival,” Modern Language Studies Department Colloquium, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, October 3, 2019. “Recréer l’extraordinaire : l’échange culturel et après...” Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBEI) Annual Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, May 10, 2019. “The Politics of Dying in Early-Modern England: Elegy, Epitaphs, and Mourning in the Poetry of Katherine Philips,” Literature Undergraduate’s Colloquium at Concordia, Montreal, Québec, March 2019. “Canada’s Black Sheep is Blue, an American Shade Blue,” LINK18 Conference, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, May 2018. 2 “Circumventing Consent: Richardson’s Notion of Agency Through the Mind-Body Problem in Clarissa,” Literature Undergraduate’s Colloquium at Concordia, Montréal, Québec, April 2017. “Mordecai’s Version: The Adaptation of Richleresque Politics in Barney’s Version,” Quebec University English Undergraduate Colloquium, Sherbrooke, Québec, March 2017. “Clarissa et la transition vers le roman moderne dans un contexte capitaliste,” Colloque Cycles et linéarité, Centre d’étude en pensée politique, Université du Québec à Montréal, December 2016. OTHER CONFERENCES ATTENDED Textual Transactions, Modern Language Association, Hyatt, Sheraton Grand, and Fairmount Hotels, Chicago, IL., January 3-6, 2019. The London Victorian Studies Colloquium, Royal Holloway, University of London, April 13-14 2018. States of Insecurity, Modern Language Association, Hilton & Sheraton Hotels, New York City, January 4-7, 2018. L’école d'été de l’Institut du nouveau monde, École national d’administration publique, Montréal, Canada, August 9-12, 2017. ACADEMIC SERVICE & OTHER POSITIONS President, Concordia Exchange Student Association, September 2018-May 2019. Research Assistant in Natural Language Processing, Department of Computer Science (Dr. Sabine Bergler), Concordia University, January-May 2019. Assistant Field Bibliographer, Modern Language Association, February 2018-present. Panel Chair, “Circulation and Mobility,” The London Victorian Studies Colloquium, Royal Holloway, University of London, April 13, 2018. General Manager, Journal of Political Affairs 2016, Concordia University, January-June 2017. https://issuu.com/leandre77/docs/journalofpoliticalaffairs. Staff Writer, The Concordian Newspaper, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, September 2016- November 2017. Copy Editor, LUCC 2016 Proceedings, Concordia University, March 2016. Contributor, “The Grendel’s Project: Of Monsters and Men,” panel by Michael Perry, Stephi Stavropoulos, Chalsley Taylor, and Katrina Tsimiklis, Monstrous Impositions (14th Annual Concordia English Graduate Colloquium), March 6, 2018. Contributor, Journal l'Idéephile, Collège de Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Canada, 2015. 3 TEACHING EXPERIENCE French Language Teaching Assistant, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, August 2019- present. Writing Assistant, Concordia University Writing Assistance Centre, Montréal, Québec, May 2016-May 2019. ESL Monitor (Explore Program), La Cité Collégiale, Ottawa, Ontario, July-August 2018. Writing Tutor, Collège de Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Canada, September-December 2015. ESL Monitor (Explore Program), Brock University, Saint Catharines, Ontario, July-August 2015. PROFESSIONAL WRITING EXPERIENCE Founder & Writing Coach, Stellar Writing, February-Present Content Marketing Intern, Nuage Stays, May-August 2019. Content Marketer, Writer, and Translator, Self-Employed, September 2016-August 2019. Editor / Content Marketer, Diffusion CV, Montréal, Canada, May-December 2017. Speech Writer (French), Ciné-club, Collège de Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Canada, September-December 2015. OTHER VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCES Language Interpret (EN-FR & ES-FR), 58th Session of the Commission for Social Development, Civil Society Forum, United Nations, February 14, 2020 Adult Literacy Tutor, Penn State’s College of Education, Career Pathways - Lycoming County, January 2020 - present Chapter Member, Best Buddy Canada, Montréal, Canada, September 2018-May 2019. Volunteer, Blue Metropolis Festival, Montréal, Canada, April 11-17, 2016. Student Representative, Governing Board, Collège de Chicoutimi, September-December 2015. MEMBERSHIPS Modern Language Association (MLA), Golden Key International Society, Association professionnelle des écrivain.e.s de la Sagamie (APES) 4 LANGUAGES French (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), German (intermediate). 5