Marie-Eve Bouchard


Assistant Professor

French, Hispanic & Italian Studies

Faculty of Arts

Research Themes:  Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism

I received a B.A. in International Studies and Modern Languages and a Masters in Linguistics from Laval University. In 2017, I completed my PhD in the Department of Linguistics at New York University, with a research project that investigated the emerging variety of Portuguese spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe. Before joining UBC, I was a researcher in the Department of Romance Studies and Classics at Stockholm University with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swedish Wenner-Gren Foundations.

I am an anthropologically oriented sociolinguist, and I tend to enjoy the blurred space between these two fields.

Research interests: Language ideologies, Language contact, Language variation and change, Language and national identity, Migration and diaspora, Language, race, and ethnicity

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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