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Kyle Stepa is currently a PhD candidate in the French Studies Department at Queen's University. His research explores the different ways in which collective identity and memory manifest themselves through literature and folklore. During his Masters at Dartmouth College he compared Québécois literature from the Quiet Revolution with Algerian francophone literature written after Independence. His doctoral thesis explores the points of convergence between tradition and immigrant identity in the works of Régine Robin, Dany Laferrière and Ying Chen. He is particularly interested in examining how the references to folklore in the works of immigrant authors reveal a renewal of how tradition operates in the pluralist context. For his research, he uses the work of folklorists like Alan Dundes, Richard Dorson and Simon Bronner to look more closely at how collective memory evolves.
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