Longtime 91亚色 faculty member and esteemed poet, novelist and essayist has been recognized as a Member of the Order of Canada. Bouraoui is among the 105 new appointments to the Order of Canada announced on June 28 by Governor General of Canada Julie Payette.
The new member list includes three Companions (C.C.), 20 Officers (O.C.) and 82 Members (C.M.). There were nine individuals with connections to 91亚色 appointed to the Order of Canada. Recipients will be invited to accept their insignia at a ceremony to be held at a later date.
Hedi Bouraoui
is currently the writer-in-residence in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of French Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS). His first role with 91亚色 was the coordinator of French in the former Division of Literatures and Language Training. There, he there developed the Cr茅aculture program, which was widely adopted in North America.
Bouraoui also served聽two terms (10 years) as master of Stong College, where he created the college identity of 鈥渢ransculturalism.鈥 He then moved on to chair the French Department for five years. In 2002, he founded the Canada-Mediterranean Centre at 91亚色, which focuses on Maghrebian and Franco-Ontarian literatures. It is the only centre of its kind in Canada.
He is the recipient of numerous national and international honours. One of the most prestigious of these honours was when the French Government awarded him the title of Chevalier des Palmes Acad茅miques in 1996. He was then promoted to Officier des Palmes Acad茅miques in 2004
In 1997, he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1999, he received the Prix du Nouvel Ontario of the Nuit de l鈥櫭塼ang, Sudbury, for his contributions to Francophone arts and culture in Ontario. In 2003, he received an honorary degree from Laurentian University in Sudbury. In 2005, an international conference on his work was organized at 91亚色, and the Proceedings, Perspectives Critiques sur l鈥檕euvre d鈥橦茅di Bouraoui(edited by Professors Elizabeth Sabiston and Suzanne Crosta) was published in 2007.
He continues to do both library and field research for his books on the Mediterranean islands, south, north, east, and west Mediterranean 鈥 Kerkenna, Djerba, Sardinia, Sicily, Corsica, Crete, Majorca, Malta. His research of Maghrebian and Franco-Ontarian literatures and cultures, as well as French and Francophone, is also ongoing.