Gaelle Planchenault

Gaelle Planchenault is an associate Professor in French Media, Culture and Applied Linguistics at Simon Fraser University.
Her research examines linguistic practices in films, the ideologies that underpin them, as well as their roles in sustaining prejudices towards ethnic and minority groups. Her monograph, 'Voices in the Media: Performing French Linguistic Otherness' (2015, Bloomsbury) focuses on the performances of social, ethnic and gendered voices in French.
She is currently doing research on the representations of anger in French media and films, looking in particular at the intersection of gender and race in such representations (among these, her current work is on the mediatization of French female activists of Maghrebi/West-African origin).
She has also worked on discrimination toward accents (regional, national, ethnic, 2nd Language accent, etc.) - and the book that she recently co-directed for John Benjamins (Pragmatics of Accents) offers an example of the wide array of research on the subject.