Emeritus Member

CLAUDINE FISHER

Dr. Claudine Fisher (Doctorat-ès-Lettres in French from Paris VIII, Highest Honors, and Agrégation-ès-Lettres in English,) author of La Cosmogonie d’Hélène Cixous, and editor of  Gaétan Brulotte: une nouvelle écriture, wrote also several chapters in books about Anne Hébert, Madeleine Monette, Hélène Cixous, Paule Constant and a hundred articles and reviews on 20th and 21st centuries French literature, Québec and Francophone writers.

For thirty years, Dr. Fisher was Professor of French at Portland State University, then Director of the Canadian Studies program (3 PSU best teacher awards.) Concurrently, she was, for fourteen years, the Honorary Consul of France in Portland for the State of Oregon (Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, then Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.)

The “Claudine G. Fisher Endowed Scholarship in French” is a student award at Portland State University.

Author of historical novels:

• The Reluctant French Rebel (2016)

• Southbound French Settlers (2017)

• The Breton Black Foot (2017)

• Call me Carol (2019)

• Little Muratou (2020)

• Out of Vogue/Loin de l’Air du Temps, Bilingual English/French short stories (2021)

• (Claudine Fisher & Fred Guégan) 16 rue Warnier, Saint Eugène (in French) (2022)

• She and I on Amazon & Kindle, (January 2024)

Largest City:

Paris