Leadership Team

Dean Kathryn Prince

I’m chronically curious and passionately interested in stories: not just stories that we tell in novels or plays, but also stories that help us understand our planet, the cosmos, the deep past, our distant future… Every kind of story about everything is absolutely fascinating to me. I was that undergraduate student who took every possible elective, eventually settling on English and history as my majors. My research has covered everything from Shakespeare to post-apocalyptic science fiction, and I’ve been a professor of both theatre and English literature, as well as a colleague in interdisciplinary ventures like the Centre for the History of Emotions in Australia and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program here at uOttawa. The Faculty of Arts is the perfect place for someone like me because my colleagues are top researchers and passionate educators in everything from medieval philosophy to machine learning. I can always find someone to tell me a good story I haven’t heard before. There’s real latitude in the Faculty of Arts to follow your curiosity, as a student and as a professor. I hope that all of our students, even those from other faculties just taking an elective with us, get a sense of how remarkable it is to have that room to roam. It’s how we’ll imagine the stories that shape the future of humanity.

Kathryn Prince

Vice-Dean Governance

Vice-Dean Governance
Jérémie Séror

Jérémie Séror

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Jérémie Séror is an experienced teacher and researcher in the field of language education. His research explores language socialization processes in plurilingual and pluricultural environments. His expertise includes the dynamics and impact of immersion programmes, the development of bi/pluriliteracy, as well as digital writing strategies and processes.

Vice-Dean Student Affairs

Vice-Dean, Student Affairs
Monika Jezak

Monika Jezak

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Monika Jezak has over 30 years’ experience in teaching French as a second language in various settings, such as immersion classes, adult immigrant programs, and university. She has served as a language policy expert in a variety of organizations, including UNESCO, the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks, and the Canadian government.

Vice-Dean Programs

Vice-Dean of Academic Programs
Joel Beddows

Joël Beddows

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Joël Beddows is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre, special adviser on the Francophonie to the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and a researcher associated with the Centre de recherche sur les francophonies canadiennes, where he led the Research Chair in Canadian Francophonie (cultural practices) from 2006 to 2016. As someone who calls the theatre home, he is also an artistic director, drama coach and theatre director who is known for his commitment to aesthetic research, theatre for younger audiences, and the renewal of Franco-Ontarian drama. He has served as artistic director of the Théâtre la Catapulte (1998 to 2010) and of the Théâtre français de Toronto (2016 to 2021), and is a founding member of Transfrontaliers (2020), a group dedicated to ensuring a better international distribution of French-language works created by racialized artists. 

Vice-Dean Research

Vice-Dean Research
Brian Ray

Brian Ray

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Brian Ray is the vice-dean, research at the Faculty of Arts and a professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics. His research interests include discrimination in Canada, the changing linguistic landscape of Ottawa-Gatineau, and the geographic dimensions of employment among immigrants and second-generation Canadians living in large cities.

Department Directors

Luis Abanto

Luis Abanto

Director- Modern Languages and Literature  

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Eric Allina

Eric Allina

Director- History Department

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Salah Basalamah

Salah Basalamah

Director- Translation and Interpretation 

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Mawy Bouchard

Mawy Bouchard

Director- French Department

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Éric Mathieu

Director- Linguistics Department

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Luc Bonneville

Luc Bonneville

Director- Communication Department

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Mary Cavanagh

Mary Cavanagh

Director- School of Information Studies

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Mitia Rioux-Beaulne

Director: Department of Philosophy 

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Geoffrey Greatrex

Director: Department of Classics and Religious Studies

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Brenda Macdougall

Brenda Macdougall

Director- Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies

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Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore

Director- Department of Music

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Lucie Hotte

Lucie Hotte

Directrice- Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne française

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Kevin Orr

Kevin Orr

Director: Theater Department

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Marc Saner

Marc Saner

Director- Department of Geography, Environment, and Geomatics

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Jérémie Séror

Jérémie Séror

Director- Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute

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Robert Stacey

Robert Stacey

Director- English Department

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Jakub Zdebik

Jakub Zdebik

Director- Visual Arts Department

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