Office: EA3038
Phone: 403.440.5962
E-mail: gmossiere@mtroyal.ca

Gilles Mossière is the Chair of the Department of Languages and Cultures.
He was born in Lyon (France), and studied English and American literature at Université Lyon II. Between 1984 and 2005, Gilles taught French language and literature courses on a sessional basis at Mount Royal College, the University of Calgary and the Alliance Française. He was awarded a Distinguished Faculty teaching Award (Part-Time, Credit) in 1998.
Gilles was hired on a full-time basis in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Mount Royal in 2005, and was granted Tenure in 2008.
Gilles obtained his Masters of Arts Degree from the University of Calgary in 1991, and published articles on Marguerite Duras, Yves Thériault, Philippe Beaussant, and Nancy Huston. Nowadays, he integrates his strong personal interest in literature and mountains/mountaineering in his research on French and Canadian Mountain Fiction. Since 1998, he has presented a number of conferences on that topic, in particular at the "Salon du livre de montagne de Passy" (France). His PhD dissertation deals with the representations of the Himalayas in French literature. Gilles also has a peculiar obsession with Trans-Canada highway billboards and has done a number of presentations in Calgary and abroad on that topic.
He is a Certified Translator (ATIA/CTTIC), and contributes on a regular basis to TransLit, the biennial literary translation anthology published by ATIA.

For more information, visit Gilles' Web pages: www2.mtroyal.ca/~gmossiere.