Young Researcher of the Year Award 2007
In 2005, the Faculty of Arts established the Young Researcher of the Year Award, to recognize the outstanding achievements of a researcher or artist who is in the early stages of his or her academic career.
Professor Michel Fournier received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2003, visited Harvard University as a post-doctoral fellow in 2003-04, and was then hired as an Assistant Professor in the tenure stream at the University of Ottawa in 2004. Since 2004 he has positioned himself as an invaluable colleague in the Department of français.
Professor Fournier has already established a successful record of research funding, with SSHRC-funding for a standard research grant (2005-08) and for a project in which he is a co-researcher (2006-09). His research has been successfully published in refereed journals (Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, XVIIe siècle, L’Information grammaticale, Protée, et La Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire) and has been presented at major national and international conferences. His manuscript for a monograph on the development of the 17th-century French novel has been accepted by Laval University Press.
Michel Fournier has carried a full load of undergraduate teaching, and his A report summary illustrates strong evaluations from his students. In academic and professional service, he has been contributing in important ways to professional committees, conferences, and journals.
