Tuesday, April 8, 2014

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Writer/Creator


2014 - OneChuck Production - Mazda - Scriptwriter and assistant director for "Le Grand Duel Mazda", web and TV spots
2013 - 2014 - Rat Films - Les Génies de l'extrême - Head researcher and scriptwriter for a forthcoming television series bought by Expora (CBC)
2013 - OneChuck Production - Hunt's TV Spots - Scrips
2013 - Toppik - Website
2012 - Cossette - Office du Tourisme Québec - Four-Season Brochure (Adaptation from winter brochure)
2012 - Cossette - Office du Tourisme Québec - Québec Original Lexicon, Fun Facts, Adaptation (Two years later, many of the entries in the "Glossary" and "Did You Know" section are still mine)
2012 - Tuxedo - makeup.com - Short Copy Branding
2012 - Cossette - Office du Tourisme Québec - Cyclo-Tourism Summer 2012
2012 - Cossette - Office du Tourisme Québec - USA Microsite Summer 2012
2012 - Cossette (Québec) - Exceldor - Print Ad in Ricardo Magazine
2012 - Cossette (Québec) - Lunique Condos - Print Ad
2011 - Cossette - Cossette Website
2011 - Cossette - Office du Tourisme Québec - France Microsite Winter 2011
2011 - OneChuck Production - Blue Dragon TV Spots - 2 scripts
2011 - OneChuck Production - GLAD TV Spots - 3 scripts
2011 - OneChuck Production - Vendirect TV Spots - 2 scripts


Translation/Revision

2012 - Cossette - Aeroplan - eStore Promo Titles, Short Copy Adaptation
2012 - Tuxedo - Dermablend, Go Beyond the Cover - Translation and revision of contest forms
2012 - Tuxedo - essie - Brandbook Revision
2012 - The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration - Translation and revision of article 51
2012 - Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics - Translation and revision
2011 - Cossette - Cossette Website - French and english version
2011 - Archambault.ca - Entire eBook site, FAQs, Terms of Service - English Version
2010 - Sid Lee - Marina Bay Sands website

Content Manager

2012 - Sid Lee - Société des Transports de Montréal - Contest "Faites résonner votre voix dans le métro - Monitoring
2011 - Cossette - Cossette Website
2011 - Archambault.ca & Archambault SIE - Promotions, product description - eBooks, french books
2011 - Archambault.ca & Archambault SIE - Data retrieval, database troubleshoot
2011 - Sid Lee - Pointe-à-Callière, Musée d'archéologie et d'histoire de Montréal - Research, content and wireframe plan the Yours Truly Montreal (Signé Montréal) microsite
2011 - Sid Lee - adidas women 2011 - Copydeck & Video Subtitles
2011 - Sid Lee - adidas basketball 2011 - Copydeck
2010 - Sid Lee - Tourisme Montréal - Cheat On Your City - Copydeck
2010 - Sid Lee - Marina Bay Sands
2010 - Université de Montréal - Department of Comparative Literature

University

Thesis

2014 - By Indirections Find Directions Out: Thinkable Worlds in Abbott and Vonnegut (Forthcoming)

Master's Thesis

2006 - Le paradoxe dans les Alices de Lewis Carroll; La force du littéraire dans la théorisation de l’irrésoluble

Articles

2014 - Post-Scriptum.org - Cette crise indéfinie qui causera l'effondrement de la civilization
2012 - Post-Scriptum.org - Cadran sur pied; penser le temps hors du moment
2011 - Post-Scriptum.org - Définitions ratées et figures foisonnantes; Le geek et la liste
2010 - Revue Trans- - La figure du geek comme stratégie de lecture; Naviguer la “pop culture” à l’ère du surplus culturel
2010 - Post-Scriptum.org - No 12 - En attendant la fin du monde; La structure littéraire de l’apocalypse - Project director, data management, revision, cover creation, etc.
2009 - Lignes de fuite - Geek Is as Geek Does? Cosplay and Geek Chic as Conflicting Sides of a Figure in Need of Definition
2009 - Lignes de fuite - Les malaisés dans la culture, ou, le geek n’est pas canon
2006 - Post-Scriptum.org - Le common sense de la logique, le non-sens de la littérature
2005 - Konstellations - Le sujet du destin

Conferences

2013 - True Geek: Defining Identity through Personal Narratives of Transcendental Experience - Presentation at the 44th international congress of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) taking place in Boston, Massachusetts

2012 - Epistemologically Possessed: The Daemon as Junction between Conceptual Character and Thought Experiment - Presentation at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) taking place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2011 - Séléno-logique; l'impossible voyage dans la lune - Conference - Part of the Atopos Cycle of Conferences at the University of Montreal

2011 - Out with the Old Recycling, In with the New Repurposing; Accelerated Sampling as the Language of Urgency - Presentation at the international conference Aesthetics of Renewal hosted by the Canadian Association of American Studies (CAAS) at the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa

2011 - Unburdening the world of Atlas; Mapping Knowledge through Imagined Impossibility - Presentation at the international conference World Without a Center: The Dispersal of Knowledge and Culture in the Planetary Age, taking place at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2011 - Le trouble-fête littéraire de la thermodynamique; Le demon de Maxwell comme figure génératrice – Presentation at the 9th international Word & Image symposium taking place at the UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal)

2011 - The Ecstasy of “Impossible” Knowledge; Conveyed Transcendence in Hinton’s New Era of Thought - Presentation at the 42nd convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) taking place at Rutgers University, New Jersey

2011 - L’amitié est-elle le dernier bastion de la sincérité contemporaine? - Presentation at the international symposium Penser l’amitié at Concordia University

2010 - Ne jurer que par un livre: la sacralisation du texte profane, la profanation du texte sacré -Symposium organiser, taking place during the 78th annual ACFAS conference at the University of Montréal

2010 - La spéculation mimétique contre la possibilité du sacré; Interprétations de la memorabilia dans A Canticle for Leibowitz - Presented at the symposium “Ne jurer que par un livre: la sacralisation du texte profane, la profanation du texte sacré” during the 78th annual ACFAS conference at the University of Montréal

2010 - L’attrait du vide; Le voyage temporel comme mouvement figuratif de l’éternité 0 Presented at the international symposium “L’envoûtement. Principes du processus figural” at the Concordia University

2010 - The Causality of Thought Experiments; Impossible Divinations and Possible Worlds - Presented at the international symposium “Explosive Past, Radiant Future” at the University of Toronto

2009 - Le Jeu du savoir; Entre expérience de pensée et créneau spécialisé - Presented at the interdisciplinary symposium “The Artfulness of Play; Bridging Creative and Theoretical Discourse” at the University of Western Ontario

2009 - Le Démon littéraire du scientifique; La fiction comme remise en question de la vérité - Presented at the 77th annual ACFAS conference at the University of Ottawa

2009 - Les malaisés dans la culture, ou, le geek n’est pas canon - Presented at the international symposium “Malaise; La fissure dans la littérature et les autres arts” at the University of Montréal

2009 - Se figurer l’éternité : Limites épistémologiques (et parfois apocalyptiques) de la réflexion sur l’infini temporel - Presented at the international conference “L’Apocalypse perpétuelle: l’effondrement du savoir et autres cataclysmes”

2008 - Repenser le futur de l’éducation - Representative for the comparative literature department in a panel on the future of education with the University of Montreal’s Dean of the Arts

2007 - La contextomie : La communication a-t-elle cause à déterrer l’auteur littéraire? - Presented at the 75th annual ACFAS conference at the UQTR (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière)

Other

2013 - 2014 - L'Asie devant soi - Blogue de voyage, conjointement avec Sophie-Annick Vallée
2012 - 2014 - Grandeur de l'empire - Co-curator of a museum exhibit (as well as creator of shown multimedia installations) - Carrefour des Arts et des Sciences
2007 - 2014 - Post-scriptum.org - Editor in Chief and Webmaster
2010 - 2013 - Translator for Catherine Mavrikakis, author and professor
2008 - 2009 - Grant for the organization of the multidisciplinary performance night Prozaïc two years in a row
2008 - Presentation of youth poems at the festival Voix d'Ici during the On ne peut pas tous être Émile Nelligan night
2005 - 2007 - Member of the CISM Board of Directors
2005 - Subtitles for documentaries such as 92 cents per litre, presented at the Festival des Films du Monde.
2002 - 2003 - Journalist for Le Délit, McGill's Only French Newspaper - Music & Show Critic