Clint Bruce

Clint Bruce, a specialist in Francophone studies from an interdisciplinary perspective, is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities. He is the director of the Observatoire Nord/Sud, a center dedicated to the study of Acadia in its international context, to the dissemination and promotion of knowledge within both academic and community spheres, and to the development of expertise. He also co-edits, with Tania Grégoire, Port Acadie: an interdisciplinary journal of Acadian studies. From 2015 to 2025, he held the Canada Research Chair in Acadian and Transnational Studies (CRÉAcT). He teaches history courses as well as a seminar in the Master’s program in Francophone Cultures and Spaces.

A native of Louisiana, he holds a Ph.D. in Francophone Studies from Brown University in the United States (2013), a Master’s in Education from the City University of New York (CUNY – Lehman College, 2009), and two Bachelor’s degrees from Centenary College of Louisiana (2002).

Professor Bruce’s research focuses on the Acadian diaspora, Francophone identities in Louisiana, and the Francophone Atlantic world. His bilingual edition of an anthology of 19th-century political poetry, *Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers* (The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2020), won the Lois Roth Award for Literary Translation, presented by the Modern Language Association. Together with Gregory M. W. Kennedy, he co-edited the collective volume Rethinking Acadia in the World: Comparative Studies, Transnational Studies, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2025. He is currently working on a book about the interaction between the African and Acadian diasporas in Louisiana, titled “Another Master Murdered”: Africans and Acadians in Louisiana’s Sugar Country.

Professor Bruce is a member of several research groups and teams. Equally involved in the Acadian community of southwestern Nova Scotia, he writes the column “Au rythme de notre monde” in Le Courrier de la Nouvelle-Écosse.