Arianne DesRochers
Chairholder
Arianne Des Rochers is Associate Professor of translation at the Université de Moncton, as well as a literary translator. Since 2024, she is also the chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Translation and Colonialism. Her scholarly work focuses on the translation of Indigenous literatures, exploring the colonial modalities of translation in Canada. In her role as a translator, she has worked on and collaborated on the translation of works by various Indigenous writers, including Glen Sean Coulthard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Joshua Whitehead, and Billy-Ray Belcourt.
Audrée Gagnon
Research Assistant
Audrée Gagnon holds a Bachelor of Arts in Multidisciplinary Studies from the Université de Moncton, where she is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Translation. Since 2024, she has been actively involved in various aspects of the Chair’s research activities, such as data collection, transcription, thematic analysis, and editing.
Danielle Cauchy Sagang Tajouo
Research Assistant
Danielle Sagang is currently pursuing a PhD in Sociolinguistics at the Université de Moncton. As part of her work for the Canada Research Chair in Translation and Colonialism, she is the coordinator of the Anticolonial Book Club, and manages the website and communications.
Alexis Poirier-Saumure
Consultant and Collaborator
Alexis Poirier-Saumure is a doctoral candidate specializing in queer and critical pedagogies at Concordia University’s Department of Communication Studies, in Montreal. In his role with the Chair, he has served as an expert and a consultant on qualitative methods (interviews, autoethnography) and has contributed to thematic analysis.
Kelsey Cameron
Research Assistant
Kelsey Cameron is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in the Department of French Studies at the Université de Moncton, after receiving her Bachelor of Translation in 2025. She played a key role in the Chair’s transcription work, and contributes to the Chair’s research activities as a French-English translator and copy editor.
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