Corinne Bancroft

  • Professeure adjointe
  • Département de littérature, théâtre et cinéma
  • Pavillon Louis-Jacques-Casault Local 3444
  • 418-656-2131 poste 404478
  • corinne.bancroft@lit.ulaval.ca

Intérêts de recherche

Narrative Theory
Ethics
Critical Race Theory
Cognitive Approaches to Literature
Digital Humanities
Novel
Contemporary American Literature

Corinne Bancroft joined the Département de littérature, théâtre et cinema in 2025. Her current research focuses on narrative strategies, such as the braided narrative and child narrators, that contemporary authors use to help readers face issues of racial and sexual violence. Her work seeks to build connections between cognitive approaches to literature and Critical Race Theory. Her publications appear in journals such as Cognitive Semiotics, Narrative, Poetics Today, Style, and others. She earned her PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a dissertation titled “A Child’s Call: Braiding Narratives in the Face of Racial Violence.”

  • American Literature
  • Narrative Theory
  • Critical Race Theory 

 “Telling Time: A Rhetorical Approach to Narrative Order.” Poetics Today 45, No. 4 (2024): 615-648.

“The Sight and Sound of Intersectionality in The Bluest Eye.” Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison, edited by Kelly Reames and Linda Wagner-Martin, Bloomsbury, (2022): 15-30.

Corinne Bancroft, “Krauss, Nicole.” Encyclopedia of American Fiction, 1980-2020, edited by Stephen Burn, Lesley Larkin, and Patrick O’Donnell.  Wiley-Blackwell, (2022): 1-6.

Multi-Narrative. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, co-edited with Liz Bahs and André Schwarck. Neue Folge 1.2 (2022). 

With Liz Bahs and André Schwarck, “Multi-Narratives: An Introduction.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Neue Folge (2022): 129- 37. 

With André Schwarck, Jutta Zimmermann, Cord-Christian Casper, et. al, “Multi-Narrative Working Paper.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Neue Folge 1.2 (2022): 139-41. 

 “The Braided Narrative as a Strategy for Narrating Historical Trauma in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks.” Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Neue Folge 1.2 (2022): 225-46.

“The Braided Narrative.” Narrative 26, No. 3 (2018): 262-281.

With Peter J. Rabinowitz. “‘Thanks to all at once and to each one’: Continuing the Conversation.” Style 48, No. 1 (2014): 94-111.

With Peter J. Rabinowitz “Euclid at the Core: Recentering Literary Education.” Style 48, No. 1 (2014): 1-34. 

“Emplotting Immigration: The Rhetoric of Border Narratives.” Journal of Cognitive Semiotics, 4, No. 2 (2012): 40-56.

With Peter J. Rabinowitz. “Cats, Dogs, and Social Minds: Learning from Alan Palmer—and Sixth Graders.” Style 45, No. 2 (2011): 333-338.      

With Peter J. Rabinowitz. “A Slice of Watermelon: The Rhetoric of Digression in Chekhov’s Fiction.” Digression in European Literature: From Cervantes to Sebald, edited by Alexis Grohmann and Caregh Wells. Palgrave Macmillan, (2011): 82-93.