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Waelti-Walters, Jennifer
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Jennifer Waelti-Walters received a PhD from the University of London, and was appointed to the Department of French Language and Literature at UVic in 1968. In 1983, she became a professor in the Women's Studies Programme. Her major fields of scholarly interest include: 20th c French novel, recent French-Canadian novels, French-English comparative studies in the novel, archetypal criticism, and women's writing, especially in Quebec and France. She was involved in five major research projects: Michel Butor, a French literary critic, writer and artist; Jeanne Hyvrard, a modern French writer; J.M LeClezio; French feminist writings of the Belle Epoque in France, 1890-1915; and French lesbian novels from the 18th to 20th centuries.