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Noel Bourque

Noel Bourque

Programming Manager

Originally from Cap-Pelé, a former small village in Westmorland County, Noel now lives in Moncton with his family.

Before FRYE, he worked as a bookseller for over 10 years. During that same time he started volunteering at the festival, until 2019 when he was offered a contractual role and never looked back. He is now responsible for FRYE’s programming and has proudly represented the organization as a board member of the Canadian Association of Literary Festivals, as well as the Atlantic Book Awards. When he isn’t reading books or reading about them, he can be found curating your next read at Bardo Books.

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Vanessa Moeller

Vanessa Moeller

Vice Chair

The first entry about Vanessa Moeller in her mother’s diary reads, “Vanessa wrote on the white wall with a red marker.” She was barely one at the time; it was a portent of things to come. Since then, she has been committed to writing, drawing, literacy, and the arts, and while she does not write on walls (much) anymore, her words do occasionally appear on a billboard or two as part of her work as a Senior Creative Writer for m5 Marketing Communications.Vanessa holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick. Her first book,Our Extraordinary Monsters, was released by Signature Editions (2009), and her work has received numerous awards including the Atlantic Poetry Prize and an honorable mention in the poetry category of the National Magazine Awards. Her poems and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals includingThe Fiddlehead,Prism International, and CV2, as well as in anthologies by Guernica Editions, Baseline Press, and Frog Hollow Press.
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Caroline Bélisle

Caroline Bélisle

Auteur·rice / Author

Caroline Bélisle is an actress and playwright who graduated from the University of Moncton and the National Theatre School of Canada. She won the prestigious Gratien-Gélinas Award for her play Les remugles ou La danse nuptiale est une langue morte, which was also a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards. Her works have been produced by Théâtre l’Escaouette, Satellite Théâtre, Théâtre Populaire d’Acadie, Théâtre Catapulte, and Théâtre des Béloufilles. Her works are available from Éditions Perce-Neige and Bouton d’or Acadie.
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Marie-Linda Lord

Marie-Linda Lord

Marie-Linda Lord is a retired professor from the University of Moncton. After working as a radio and television journalist for Radio-Canada Atlantique, she became a professor and researcher, conducting research on representations and discourse in the literature and media of Acadia and New Brunswick. Author of more than 30 scholarly chapters and articles, she has edited four books: L’émergence et la reconnaissance des études acadiennes: à la rencontre de Soi et de l’Autre (The Emergence and Recognition of Acadian Studies: Encountering Self and Other); Paysages imaginaires d’Acadie. Un atlas littéraire (Imaginary Landscapes of Acadia: A Literary Atlas); Lire Antonine Maillet à travers le temps et l’espace (Reading Antonine Maillet Through Time and Space); and La cathédrale Notre-Dame-de l’Assomption. Monument de la Reconnaissance (The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption: Monument of Recognition).
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Catherine Leclerc

Catherine Leclerc

Catherine Leclerc is a professor in the Department of French Language and Literature since 2005. She teaches translation and Canadian and Quebec literature, with a focus on linguistic minorities. Entitled "Shared Languages? Cohabitation of French and English in Contemporary Literature," her doctoral thesis examined literary texts in which languages coexist so intensely that they challenge the notion of language in texts used to categorize literature. Since then, she has continued to focus on literary multilingualism and the translation of this heterolingualism. Her current research focuses on contemporary heterolingual songwriting, as well as inclusive writing and translation.
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Isabelle Violette

Isabelle Violette

Isabelle Violette is a sociolinguist and Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at the Université de Moncton (Moncton campus). She is also Director of the Centre de recherche sur la langue en Acadie at the same institution. Her research interests include linguistic insecurity, social debates on language, the minoritization of French, and Francophone immigration.
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Gabriel Robichaud

Gabriel Robichaud

Gabriel Robichaud is a multidisciplinary artist from Moncton who began his artistic career in 2007. With an academic background in drama at the Université de Moncton, his multidisciplinary practice has led him to work on stage, writing and directing. His choice to add a political dimension to his practice, coupled with the positions he takes in the public arena, also leads him to deal with various subjects concerning the arts, culture and language, particularly in the media.
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Christophe Collard

Christophe Collard

Christophe Collard holds a doctorate in language and literature (Brussels, 2009) and has taught at universities and colleges in Belgium, Spain, China and the Philippines, as well as holding research fellowships in the USA and his second home, Canada.

Author of numerous journal articles, he has also written a monograph entitled Artist on the Make: David Mamet's Work Across Media and Genres (2012), which was shortlisted for the 2014 biannual prize of the European Society for the Study of English.

Currently a professor at the Université de Moncton, he combines his academic activities with writing and translation work for the agance Prokopê, which he founded in 2019. 

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Andrea Cabajsky

Andrea Cabajsky

Andrea Cabajsky is Full Professor of English at the Université de Moncton where she teaches and does research in Comparative Literature and Women's Writing. She is a principal investigator for the research project, "Reconstituting a Neglected Archive: Case Studies in Life Writing by Acadian and New Brunswick Women," funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Photo credit: Philippe Lanteigne
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Pénélope Cormier

Pénélope Cormier

Penelope Cormier is a professor of literature at the Edmundston campus of the University of Moncton. Her research in Acadian studies focuses on the history of Acadian literature from a sociological formalism perspective. She is a member of the Groupe de recherche sur l’Acadie contemporaine (GRAC) and the Nouvelles solidarités en littérature franco-canadienne research group. As an art critic, she has been interested in current events in French-Canadian arts for some twenty years. Photo credit: Noémie Roy-Lavoie
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Arianne Des Rochers

Arianne Des Rochers

Auteur·rice

Arianne Des Rochers is Professor of Translation at the Université de Moncton, in unceded Mi'kmaki. They have translated works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction into French, including books by Joshua Whitehead, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Kate Briggs. Photo credit: Annie France Noël
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Sonya Malaborza

Sonya Malaborza

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CJ Norris

CJ Norris

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Christine Comeau

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