Julie LeBlanc is Professor of contemporary Québéc literature and literary theory in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. Her areas of interest are: I. contemporary Québéc: modern and postmodern texts, contemporary French novel; II. Autobiography as genre: theories of autobiography, female autobiographic writing; III. Literary Theories: theories of enunciation, narratology, visual and literary semiotics. Professor LeBlanc has published a critical edition, Les Masques de Gilbert La Rocque. Édition critique (Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1998). Professor LeBlanc has co-edited special issues of such journals as Recherches sémiotiques/Semiotic Inquiry RS/S1 (vol. 12, no.3, “Rhétorique et sémiotique”), Voix et images (vol.XXII, no.1, “Effets autobiographiques au féminin”), and Texte (vol.21-22, “Narrativité et iconicité”). Professor LeBlanc has published numerous articles in edited volumes and learned journals.