Speakers: Sophie Lavoie

Sophie M. Lavoie is Professor inthe Department of Culture and MediaStudies at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, where she teaches Latin American language, literature and culture. Along with her many research publications, she is also a literary translator with various books published in English, French, and Spanish.Notably, she translated Mi’kmaq poet Rita Joe’s Nous sommes les rêveurs (Mémoire d’Encrier, 2018) and Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer’s memoir,Un parcours bispirituel. Récit d’une aînée ojibwé-crie lesbienne (éditions du remue-ménage, 2019). Sherecentlyfinisheda translation of NBAnglophone poets for Frog Hollow Books with Shane Neilson.