Marie Guyart of the Incarnation : A Mystic Educating the Women of the New World

Professor Dominique Deslandres (University of Montreal)

Dominique Deslandres is Professeur Titulaire of History at the University of Montreal. She has published two monographs on French Catholic mission and settlement in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Canada, and has a particular interest in the socio-religious history of the Jesuits and the Oratorians. She is now working on the ‘cultures of memory’ in settler societies, and has a particular interest in issues relating to conversion, race and blood in eighteenth-century Canada and France.