Adrien Rannaud

Adrien Rannaud’s research focuses on literary and cultural history of Quebec (19th century-20th century), women’s writing and cultural practices, history of media culture, celebrity studies and middlebrow culture. He completed a PhD in Literature at Laval University in 2016, and joined the University of Toronto in 2019. His first book De l’amour et de l’audace. Femmes et roman au Québec dans les années 1930 (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018) won the Gabrielle-Roy Prize by the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures. His second book, La Révolution du magazine au Québec. Poétique historique de La Revue moderne (1919-1960) is forthcoming from Nota Bene editor. He is Principal Investigator on the SSHRC-funded project “Presse et culture de la célébrité au Québec (1930-1972)”.