Pooja Booluck-Miller
Assistant Professor
Hazen Hall 106
Saint John
Dr. Pooja Booluck-Miller is an Assistant Professor in Francophone Studies in the Department of Humanities and Languages at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. She completed her BA, MA, and PhD at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the representation of migration and trauma in African, Caribbean and Indo-Oceanic Francophone literatures.
She has recently published articles in journals, including Voix Plurielles and Alternative Francophone, on topics such as the impact of trauma on identity, children’s experiences of illegal migration, and the dynamics between women’s voices and silence. Her research explores the interplay of these themes within the context of Francophone literature.
She was recently awarded the Harrison McCain Award for Young Scholars for her project on the significance of children’s literature in promoting global awareness and fostering empathy.
Selected articles
« Par-delà l’exil: La grand-parentalité comme clé de la construction identitaire dans L’exil selon Julia ». Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 123, 2023, pp. 87-97.
« Voix et silence : Le silence des Chagos de Shenaz Patel et L’exil selon Julia de Gisèle Pineau ». Voix plurielles, vol. 22, no. 2, 2022, pp. 418-433.
« Rêves amers et Conte cruel : les jeunes migrants de Maryse Condé ». Alternative Francophone, 2021, pp. 11-22
« Emma Bratte, la femme folle du livre d’Emma ». Voix plurielles, vol. 17, no. 1, 2020, pp. 5-17
“The Relevance of the U-Shaped Learning Model to the Acquisition of the Difference between c’est and il est in the English Learners of French Context.” Northwestern Linguistics Conference, vol. 34, no. 2, 2016, pp. 19-39
