Jocelyn Létourneau

Jocelyn Létourneau is professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of History, Université Laval, Québec. A fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Trudeau Foundation, he was also the principal investigator of “Canadians and their Pasts”, a SHRCC-funded Community-University Research Alliance (CURA) grant. He was a Fulbright fellow at the University of California Berkeley and Stanford University during the winter term, 2010. He’s actually on research leave at the Collegium de Lyon, an international and multidisciplinary Institute for advanced study, focusing on social sciences.

Jocelyn Létourneau’s recent publications include
• A History for the Future: Rewriting Memory and Identity in Quebec Today (McGiill-Queen’s University Press, 2004);
• Le Québec, les Québécois: un parcours historique (Fides/Musée de la civilisation, 2004);
• Que veulent vraiment les Québécois ? Regards sur l’intention nationale au Québec (français) d’hier à aujourd’hui (Boréal, 2006);
• Le Québec entre son passé et ses passages (Fides, 2010).

Recently, he co-authored Canadians and Their Pasts (University of Toronto Press, 2013). Je me souviens? Le passé du Québec dans la conscience de sa jeunesse is his seventh book published in solo.

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