Scott Powers (spowers)

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Combs Hall Room 225
spowers@umw.edu
540-654-1032


Academic Degrees

B.S., Arizona State University; M.Ed., Ph.D., Tulane University

Scott Powers in the News

Powers Co-Edits Special Volume on Hunting in Contemporary Literature from Quebec

Professor of French Scott M. Powers and Associate Professor of French Julien Defraeye (St. Thomas University) co-edited a special volume exploring the ethical dimensions of Indigenous and non-Indigenous hunting traditions in contemporary Quebec, as represented in recent Québécois novels. The volume, Entre proie et prédateur : le récit de chasse Read more…

Powers Publishes Chapter in Edited Volume

Scott Powers, Professor of French, published an essay on ecofeminism in contemporary fiction of Quebec entitled "L'écoféminisme d'Audrée Wilhelmy. Le 'devenir-animal' de la femme dans Le corps des bêtes." The essay appears as a chapter in the edited volume  Animal et animalité : stratégies de représentation dans les littératures d'expression Read more…

Powers Publishes Article on Animal Studies, Secularization Theory and Contemporary Québécois Literature

Professor of French Scott Powers' essay, published in June 2020 in the journal Québec Studies, and entitled "Secularity, the Animal Other, and the 'Fragilized' Text in the works of Jean-François Beauchemin," draws on secularization theory and animal studies to examine the works of Jean-François Beauchemin as unresolved negotiations between the Read more…
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