Micah True

Dr. Micah True joined the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies in 2010. He is a an Assistant Professor of French and Folklore, and an Associate Dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research.

Dr. True graduated magna cum laude with a BA in French and Journalism from the Gongaza University, Spokane, Washington. He received his MA and PhD in French from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

His research interests include Early French America, Francophone folklore of North America, Indigenous cultures in the colonial New World, Early modern French travel writing and theory, ethnographic writing, and theatre of the French classical period.

Representative Publications

Masters and Students: Jesuit Mission Ethnography in Seventeenth-Century New France. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.

"Maistre et Escolier: Amerindian Languages and 17th Century French Missionary Politics in the Jesuit Relations from New France," Seventeenth Century French Studies, 31.1(2009): 60-71

"Il Faut Parler pour Estre Entendu: Talking about God in Seventeenth Century New France," Cahiers du Dix-septieme, 12.1(2008): 17-36

"Retelling Genesis: The Jesuit Relations and the Wendat Creation Myth," Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 34.67 (2007): 465-484

Email: mtrue@ualberta.ca