Dr. Stéphanie Bélanger's research group for the study of the testimony was created in January 2009. Among other research projects, this research group focuses right now on a three-year project focussing on studies done in the field of the testimony of war, specifically Canadian participation in recent wars: discursive representation (truth of war activity, singularity of the experience, organizational influences of the discourse, studies on testimony as a genre); and identity issues (identification to the soldier, heroisms and failures, masculinity, equity, training, education, ethics).
Dr. Bélanger's principle areas of specialisation for her research include:
- War Literature, testimonies;
- French Literature, 17th century : drama, moralists, mystics;
- French Literature, 16th Century: wars of religion, drama, memoralists, mystics;
- French Literature, 18th Century: encyclopedists, moralists and anti-moralists, French Revolution;
- Quebec Literature, 17th – 18th Centuries: colonisators, travellers, novellists, story tellers, drama, traditionnalists, Quiet Revolution, Road Novel;
- War Studies
- Business Administration, introduction.
Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger and Alice Aiken, eds. Researching The Unique Health Needs of Military Personnel, Veterans and their families: A Step Towards Dignity. Peer reviewed Proceedings from the first Forum for Canadian Military and Veteran Health was hosted 16-17 Nov 2010 by the Royal Military College of Canada and Queen’s University. Canadian Academy Press (accepted).
Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger and Karen Davis, eds. Embracing Diversity : Women and Leadership in the Canadian Navy at the Dawn of the XXIst Century / S’engager dans la diversité: les femmes et le leadership dans la Marine canadienne à l’aube du XXIe siècle (in progress).
“The testimony of a War Amputy from Afghanistan: discursive myths and realities” (submitted).
« Regards canadiens sur la guerre d’Afghanistan » (submitted).
« Entre esthétique et narration : le témoignage d’un amputé de la guerre d’Afghanistan, le caporal chef Paul Franklin », (submitted).
« Discursive representations and shift in ideology : the integration of women in the Canadian Navy » (submitted).
« Organisational behaviour and the soldier’s formation of an identity : the example of the Canadian Forces » (article in progress).
« Les Forces canadiennes à Haïti : témoignages » (in progress).
« Guerre et société : des théories sur la guerre juste au vécu de la guerre : Canada et Afghanistan » (in progress).
« Rwanda et Canada : images, témoignages et mass media » (in progress)