DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Hasheem Hakeem, Assistant Professor of Instruction in French, holds a dual PhD in French Studies, with a focus on queer literature and theory, and in Education from Simon Fraser University. 

He has taught a variety of courses in French language and culture at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels at Simon Fraser University and at the University of Calgary. At the University of Calgary, he was course coordinator for language classes, responsible for the training and mentorship of graduate student teaching assistants, and for the redesign of the French placement test as well as two grammar-based courses. Exploring strategies for teaching French through multimodal texts is part of his pedagogical commitment to developing students’ critical literacy skills in both lower and upper-level language courses. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Diversity, Decolonization, and the French Curriculum (DDFC) Collective.

Hakeem’s research focuses on critical pedagogical approaches to French language teaching, queer and cultural studies, discourse analysis, and minoritized instructor identity. His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Voix plurielles, Cahiers franco-canadiens de l'Ouest, Contemporary French Civilization, The International Journal of Canadian Studies, and La Revue des sciences de l'éducation. He is currently co-editing a journal issue for Arborescences entitled “Au-delà de l’inclusion : pour une pédagogie critique, intersectionnelle et décolonisante”.