Félix L. Deslauriers

Félix L. Deslauriers is a PhD student in sociology at uOttawa and a Vanier Scholar. Co-supervised by Linda Pietrantonio and Elsa Galerand, his thesis project focuses on the critical theories of (hetero)sexuality produced with an emancipatory purpose since the 70s. More broadly, his research deals with the “mental face of power relations” (Guillaumin, 1992) – i.e. the ways in which those power relations are legitimized or challenged through discourse. It is in the same perspective that he analyzed nationalist discourses in Quebec for his MA thesis, for which he won the George Henri Lévesque Prize awarded by the Association canadienne des sociologues et anthropologues de langue française. He was also in charge of the Opinion pages at Ricochet, an independent media where he published several texts. Today, he is part of the organizing comitee for an international conference entitled Penser la (dé)naturalisation de la race et du sexe: actualité de Colette Guillaumin, which will take place at uOttawa in June 2019. He is also coordinator of a reading group on Contemporary Critical Theories, with Sandrine Charest-Réhel and Claude Denis.