Paul Perron is Professor of modern and contemporary French and Québécois literature in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. Professor Perron is currently the Principal of University College. His areas of interest are: I. Textual criticism relating to 17^th -century New France Literature (Jesuit Relations), and 19^th and 20^th -century French/Québécois literature; II. Semiotics and narratology; III. Semiotics of the modern Québécois novel, and of the Ethno-historical discourse (Jesuit Relations). Paul Perron has authored, co-authored, edited and co-edited numerous books among which Semiotics and the Modern Quebecois Novel (University of  Toronto Press, 1996), and, with Prof. Marcel Danesi, Analyzing Cultures (Indiana University Press, 1999) are the most recent. Professor Perron has also published extensively in learned journals and edited volumes on issues of literary semiotics and narratology. His current interests include, literary semiotics, literary theory, narratology and general problems of literary methodology.